<i>&quot;Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.&quot;</i><p>(Attributed to) Dijkstra.<p><i>&quot;Computer science isn&#x27;t a science and it isn&#x27;t about computers&quot;</i><p>(www.jonahkagan.me&#x2F;projects&#x2F;writing&#x2F;cs-essay.html, but I think that isn&#x27;t the original)<p>You can learn music without ever touching an instrument, but you can&#x27;t learn playing an instrument that way.<p>Similarly, learning computer science is not the same thing as learning to program or learning software engineering.