Computer science (abbreviated CS or CompSci) is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical processes (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information. -wikipedia.org
This video introduces the "Computer Science Field Guide", an online interactive "textbook" about computer science, written for high school students. The guide is free, and is available from cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/csfieldguide/ .
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