# Computer science
## MicroSim spec
- **Recommended sim type:** graph-network
- **Microsimmability score:** 42/100
- **Layout:** drawing region (canvas) on top; control region (sliders/buttons) below.
### Parameters (tunable controls)
- `Nodes` (number of nodes)
- `Edge density` (fraction of possible links present)
- `Edge cost` (weight scale on links)
### What animates
A network of nodes and weighted edges lays out on the canvas; a path or flow is traced and re-routed as topology and costs change.
### Learning objective
Relate routing, critical paths, and delay to network topology and costs.
## Links (Wikipedia order)
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`Brian_Randell` · `CI/CD` · `CSAB_(professional_organization)` · `Cambridge_Diploma_in_Computer_Science` · `Cambridge_University_Press` · `Capability_Maturity_Model_Integration` · `Category_theory` · `Central_processing_unit` · `Channel_capacity` · `Charles_Babbage` · `Charles_Babbage:_Pioneer_of_the_Computer` · `Circuit_(computer_science)` · [[Civil_engineering]] · [[Claude_Shannon]] · [[Code]] · `Coding_theory` · [[Cognitive_science]] · `Columbia_University` · [[Combinatorial_optimization]] · [[Communication_protocol]] · `Communications_of_the_ACM` · `Compatibility_layer` · `Compatibility_mode` · [[Complex_system]] · `Component-based_software_engineering` · `Computability_theory` · `Computation` · `Computational_biology` · `Computational_chemistry` · `Computational_complexity` · `Computational_complexity_theory` · `Computational_engineering` · `Computational_finance` · `Computational_geometry` · `Computational_intelligence` · `Computational_learning_theory` · `Computational_linguistics` · `Computational_logic` · `Computational_mathematics` · `Computational_musicology` · `Computational_physics` · `Computational_problem` · `Computational_science` · `Computational_social_science` · `Computational_statistics` · `Computer` · `Computer_accessibility` · `Computer_animation` · [[Computer_architecture]] · `Computer_compatibility` · `Computer_data_storage` · [[Computer_engineering]] · `Computer_graphics` · `Computer_graphics_(computer_science)` · [[Computer_hardware]] · `Computer_network` · [[Computer_programming]] · `Computer_science_(disambiguation)` · `Computer_scientist` · `Computer_security` · `Computer_vision` · `Computing` · `Computing_Machinery_and_Intelligence` · `Computing_platform` · `Concurrency_(computer_science)` · `Concurrent_computing` · `Control_flow` · [[Control_theory]] · `Corrado_Böhm` · [[Correctness_(computer_science)]] · `Cross-validation_(statistics)` · `Cryptographic_hash_function` · `Cryptography` · `Cyber-physical_system` · [[Cybernetics]] · `Cyberwarfare` · [[Data_compression]] · `Data_mining` · `Data_model` · `Data_modeling` · `Data_processing` · `Data_science` · `Data_structure` · `Database` · `Database_model` · `David_Parnas` · `Decision_support_system` · `Declarative_programming` · [[Deductive_reasoning]] · [[Dependability]] · `DevOps` · `Digital_art` · [[Digital_library]] · `Digital_marketing` · `Digital_signature` · `Discrete_mathematics` · `Distributed_artificial_intelligence` · `Distributed_computing` · `Document_management_system` · `Domain-specific_language` · `Domain_theory` · `Donald_Knuth` · `E-commerce` · `ENIAC` · `Earth_science` · [[Edsger_W._Dijkstra]] · `Educational_technology` · [[Electrical_engineering]] · `Electroencephalography` · `Electronic_design_automation` · `Electronic_publishing` · `Electronic_voting` · `Embedded_system` · `Emotion` · `Empirical_software_engineering` · `Encryption` · [[Engineering]] · `Enterprise_architecture` · `Enterprise_information_system` · `Enterprise_software` · `Enterprise_unified_process` · `Entity–relationship_model` · [[Error_detection_and_correction]] · `Essential_systems_analysis` · [[Evolutionary_computation]] · `Executable_UML` · `Experimental_software_engineering` · `Extended_reality` · `Extreme_programming` · [[Fast_Fourier_transform]] · [[Fault_tolerance]] · `Floating-point_arithmetic` · [[Fluid_dynamics]] · `Form_factor_(design)` · `Formal_language` · `Formal_methods` · `Formal_specification` · `Formal_verification` · `Forward_compatibility` · [[Function_model]] · `Functional_programming` · `Functional_specification` · `Garbled_circuit` · `Geographic_information_system` · [[George_Boole]] · `George_Forsythe` · `Glossary_of_Arabic_toponyms` · `Glossary_of_Hebrew_toponyms` · [[Glossary_of_aerospace_engineering]] · `Glossary_of_agriculture` · `Glossary_of_archaeology` · `Glossary_of_architecture` · `Glossary_of_areas_of_mathematics` · `Glossary_of_artificial_intelligence` · `Glossary_of_astronomy` · `Glossary_of_biology` · `Glossary_of_bird_terms` · `Glossary_of_botanical_terms` · `Glossary_of_calculus` · `Glossary_of_cellular_and_molecular_biology_(0–L)` · `Glossary_of_cellular_and_molecular_biology_(M–Z)` · `Glossary_of_chemistry_terms` · [[Glossary_of_civil_engineering]] · `Glossary_of_clinical_research` · `Glossary_of_computer_hardware_terms` · `Glossary_of_computer_science` · `Glossary_of_developmental_biology` · `Glossary_of_ecology` · `Glossary_of_economics` · [[Glossary_of_electrical_and_electronics_engineering]] · `Glossary_of_engineering:_A–L` · `Glossary_of_engineering:_M–Z` · `Glossary_of_entomology_terms` · `Glossary_of_environmental_science` · `Glossary_of_genetics_and_evolutionary_biology` · `Glossary_of_geography_terms_(A–M)` · `Glossary_of_geography_terms_(N–Z)` · `Glossary_of_geology` · `Glossary_of_ichthyology` · `Glossary_of_machine_vision` · [[Glossary_of_mechanical_engineering]] · `Glossary_of_medicine` · `Glossary_of_meteorology` · `Glossary_of_mycology` · `Glossary_of_nanotechnology` · `Glossary_of_physics` · `Glossary_of_probability_and_statistics` · `Glossary_of_protistology` · `Glossary_of_psychiatry` · `Glossary_of_quantum_computing` · `Glossary_of_robotics` · `Glossary_of_scientific_naming` · [[Glossary_of_structural_engineering]] · `Glossary_of_virology` · `Goto` · `Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz` · [[Graphics_processing_unit]] · `Greek_language` · `Green_computing` · `Halting_problem` · `Hardware_acceleration` · `Hardware_security` · `Harvard_Business_School` · `Harvard_Mark_I` · `Health_informatics` · [[Herbert_A._Simon]] · `Herman_Hollerith` · `History_of_Unix` · `History_of_artificial_intelligence` · `History_of_cloud_computing` · `History_of_compiler_construction` · `History_of_computer_hardware_in_Bulgaria` · `History_of_computer_hardware_in_Eastern_Bloc_countries` · `History_of_computer_hardware_in_Yugoslavia` · `History_of_computer_science` · `History_of_computing` · `History_of_computing_hardware_(1960s–present)` · `History_of_computing_in_Poland` · `History_of_computing_in_Romania` · `History_of_computing_in_South_America` · `History_of_computing_in_the_Soviet_Union` · `History_of_free_and_open-source_software` · `History_of_general-purpose_CPUs` · `History_of_laptops` · `History_of_operating_systems` · `History_of_personal_computers` · `History_of_programming_languages` · `History_of_software` · `History_of_software_configuration_management` · `History_of_software_engineering` · `History_of_the_Internet` · `History_of_the_World_Wide_Web` · `History_of_the_graphical_user_interface` · `History_of_video_games` · `Human` · `Human-centered_computing` · `Human-centered_design` · `Human–computer_interaction` · `Hungarian_language` · `IBM` · [[IDEF]] · `IEEE_Computer_Society` · `ISO/IEC_15504` · [[Image_compression]] · `Imperative_programming` · `Incremental_build_model` · [[Industrial_process_control]] · `Informatics` · [[Information]] · `Information_engineering` · [[Information_model]] · `Information_retrieval` · [[Information_science]] · `Information_security` · [[Information_system]] · [[Information_theory]] · `Input/output` · `Integrated_circuit` · `Integrated_development_environment` · `Interaction_design` · `Interface_(computing)` · `Interpreter_(computing)` · `Intrusion_detection_system` · `Iterative_and_incremental_development` · [[John_von_Neumann]] · `Key-agreement_protocol` · `Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning` · `Kolmogorov_complexity` · `Kurt_Gödel` · `Leonardo_Torres_Quevedo` · `Library_(computing)` · `Linguistics` · [[List_of_computer-aided_engineering_software]] · `List_of_computer_science_awards` · `List_of_computer_science_conferences` · `List_of_computer_scientists` · `List_of_computer_size_categories` · `List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science` · `List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science` · `Lloyd_Strickland` · [[Logic]] · `Logic_in_computer_science` · [[Machine_learning]] · [[Management_science]] · `Mathematical_analysis` · `Mathematical_logic` · [[Mathematical_optimization]] · [[Mathematical_software]] · `Mathematics` · `Mechanical_calculator` · `Medical_image_computing` · [[Metamodeling]] · `Microarchitecture` · `Microcontroller` · `Middleware` · `Millennium_Prize_Problems` · `Minds_and_Machines` · `Mission_critical` · `Mobile_computing` · `Model-driven_engineering` · `Model_of_computation` · `Modeling_language` · `Mozilla_Foundation` · `Multi-task_learning` · `Multimedia_database` · [[Multiprocessing]] · [[Multithreading_(computer_architecture)]] · `Natural_language_processing` · `Natural_science` · `Network_architecture` · `Network_performance` · `Network_scheduler` · `Network_security` · `Network_service` · `Networking_hardware` · `Neuroinformatics` · `Neurophysiology` · `New_York_City` · `Numerical_analysis` · `Object-oriented_programming` · `Object_model` · `Oikonyms_in_West_and_South_Asia` · [[Ontology_(information_science)]] · `Open_problem` · `Open_source` · `Operating_system` · [[Operations_research]] · `Outline_of_algorithms` · `Outline_of_computer_science` · `Oxford_University_Press` · `Parallel_computing` · `Pattern_recognition` · `Percy_Ludgate` · `Peripheral` · `Personal_computer` · `Peter_J._Denning` · `Peter_Naur` · `Peter_Wegner_(computer_scientist)` · `Petri_net` · `Philosophy` · `Philosophy_of_artificial_intelligence` · `Philosophy_of_computer_science` · `Philosophy_of_mind` · `Photograph_manipulation` · `Physical_computing` · [[Physics]] · `Printed_circuit_board` · [[Probability]] · `Processor_(computing)` · `Processor_design` · `Programmable_calculator` · `Programming_language` · `Programming_language_theory` · `Programming_paradigm` · `Programming_team` · `Programming_tool` · [[Project_management]] · `Psychoinformatics` · `Punched_card` · `Purdue_University` · [[Quantum_computing]] · `Query_language` · `R._Anthony_Hyman` · `Randomized_algorithm` · `Rapid_application_development` · [[Real-time_computing]] · [[Reinforcement_learning]] · `Rendering_(computer_graphics)` · `Requirements_analysis` · [[Requirements_engineering]] · `Risk_management` · [[Robotics]] · `Round-trip_engineering` · `Rózsa_Péter` · `Samuel_Morse` · `School_of_Informatics,_University_of_Edinburgh` · [[Science]] · `Scientific_modelling` · [[Search-based_software_engineering]] · `Security_hacker` · `Security_service_(telecommunication)` · `Semiotics` · `Service-oriented_architecture` · `Service-oriented_programming` · [[Signal]] · [[Signal_processing]] · `Simulation` · [[Site_reliability_engineering]] · `Slavic_languages` · `Social_behavior` · `Social_computing` · `Social_intelligence` · `Social_software` · `Social_software_engineering` · `Software` · `Software_archaeology` · [[Software_architecture]] · `Software_configuration_management` · `Software_construction` · `Software_deployment` · `Software_design` · `Software_development` · `Software_development_process` · [[Software_engineering]] · `Software_framework` · `Software_incompatibility` · `Software_maintenance` · `Software_prototyping` · [[Software_quality]] · [[Software_quality_assurance]] · `Software_repository` · `Software_system` · `Software_testing` · `Software_verification_and_validation` · `Solid_modeling` · `Speech_recognition` · `Speech_synthesis` · `Spiral_model` · `Statistics` · `Stephen_Cole_Kleene` · `Stochastic_computing` · `Structured_analysis` · `Structured_program_theorem` · `Structured_programming` · `Supercomputer` · `Supervised_learning` · `Swarm_intelligence` · `System_on_a_chip` · `Systems_analysis` · `Systems_architecture` · `Systems_development_life_cycle` · [[Systems_engineering]] · `Systems_modeling` · `Systems_modeling_language` · `Tabulating_machine` · `Taylor_&_Francis` · `Technical_debt` · [[Telecommunications]] · `Theoretical_computer_science` · `Theory_of_computation` · `Thomas_Harriot` · `Timeline_of_computing` · `Timeline_of_computing_1950–1979` · `Timeline_of_computing_1980–1989` · `Timeline_of_computing_1990–1999` · `Timeline_of_computing_2000–2009` · `Timeline_of_computing_2010–2019` · `Timeline_of_computing_2020–present` · `Timeline_of_quantum_computing_and_communication` · `Tony_Hoare` · `Turing_Award` · `Turing_machine` · `Turing_test` · `Type_theory` · `Ubiquitous_computing` · `Unified_Modeling_Language` · `Unified_process` · `Universal_Systems_Language` · `University_of_Copenhagen` · `Unsupervised_learning` · `V-model_(software_development)` · [[Very-large-scale_integration]] · `Video_game` · `View_model` · `Virtual_machine` · [[Virtual_reality]] · `Visualization_(graphics)` · `Waterfall_model` · [[Wayback_Machine]] · `Wilhelm_Schickard` · `William_J._Rapaport` · `Wireless_sensor_network` · `Word_processor` · `World_Wide_Web` · `Zero-knowledge_proof`
## From the Real GENERATIVE library (beauty pass)
*Computer science — animation hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons (via the Real G.E.N.E.R.A.T.I.V.E. course library, Geometry room). [Details & license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sorting_quicksort_anim.gif).*
*Computer science — image hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons (via the Real G.E.N.E.R.A.T.I.V.E. course library, Geometry room). [Details & license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lambda_calculus-Church_numerals.png).*
> Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.[1][2][3] Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software).[4][5][6] ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science))
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> p5.js MicroSim stub · part of Systems Engineering · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science)
> Relation: subfield of systems engineering.
## Concept summary
Computer science is the study of computation, [[Information|information]], and automation.[1][2][3] Included broadly in the sciences, computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and [[Information_theory|information theory]]) to applied disciplines (including the de...
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- [ ] Claim it: set `status: in-progress` + `lease` + `leased_at`
- [ ] Write the child page explaining the concept (tie it back to systems engineering)
- [ ] Finalize parameter ranges and defaults
- [ ] Implement the p5.js sketch (drawing + control regions)
- [ ] Add caption + the learning objective on the page
- [ ] Set `status: done`
## p5.js sketch
```javascript
// MicroSim: Computer science
let controls = {};
function setup() {
// createCanvas(...); create sliders for the parameters above.
}
function draw() {
// background(...); read controls; render graph-network; respond live.
}
```
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## Wikipedia : Wikitube
**Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Computer_science)
## Previous hub tags
Tree parents: [[Complex_system]] · [[Control_theory]] · [[Cybernetics]] · [[Game_theory]] · [[Graph_theory]] · [[Information_theory]] · [[Network_theory]] · [[Operations_research]] · [[Reliability_engineering]] · [[Self-organization]] · [[Systems_engineering]] · [[Systems_theory]].
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