Have you ever studied computer science?
I have not formally studied computer science, but I do work in IT, and have studied theory and engineering for the design and use of computers.
So you work with people with degrees in the area?
Computer science
Computer science (sometimes called computation science or computing science, but not to be confused with computational science or software engineering) is the study of processes that interact with data and that can be represented as data in the form of programs. It enables the use of algorithms to manipulate, store, and communicate digital information. A computer scientist studies the theory of computation and the practice of designing software systems.
Its fields can be divided into theoretical and practical disciplines. Computational complexity theory is highly abstract, while
theory" of computer programming, which is formally studied as a sub-discipline of computer science;
- as the term embodying the "advocacy" of a specific approach to computer programming, one that urges that it be treated as an engineering discipline rather than an art or a craft, and advocates the codification of recommended practices.
History.
When the first digital computers appeared in the early 1940s, the instructions to make them operate were wired into the machine. Practitioners quickly realized that this design was not flexible