What is computer science?

Computer science is the fascination of opening up the world of information and symbolized knowledge and making it useful. Computer science creates new access points, new views, new ways of thinking and countless automated helpers and services. Information technology enables multimedia communication everywhere, at any time and immediately. IT monitors, controls and networks processes.

Starting with the construction and programming of pure "calculating machines", computer science has rapidly taken on further areas of work in production, organization and administration. In the meantime, it has turned the computer not only into a working machine, but also into a medium, knowledge carrier, manager, entertainer, control instrument and a kind of new organ of perception for most sciences.

Computer science is concerned with the representation, storage, transmission and processing of information. It examines a wide variety of aspects: elementary structures and processes, principles and architectures of systems, interactions in small, medium-sized and global networks, the design, development and implementation of hardware and software through to highly complex application systems and reflection on their use and effects.