Cracow, Poland

Applied Computer Science

Informatyka stosowana

Bachelor's - engineer
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⇑Applied Computer Science at PK Kraków

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: computer science
Kind of studies: full-time studies

⇑Test: check whether Applied Computer Science is the right major for you!

Informatyka stosowana test

Find out if Applied Computer Science is the right major for you!

1. Do you enjoy applying computing techniques to solve practical, real-world problems?

2. Are you comfortable using programming and tools to build and deploy working software or systems?

3. Do you enjoy integrating different technologies (databases, APIs, UI, backend) to make complete systems?

4. Are you interested in optimizing performance, reliability, and usability in deployed applications?

5. Do you enjoy working with data—collecting, cleaning, analyzing, and using it to drive decisions?

6. Are you motivated to understand user needs and adapt technical solutions accordingly?

7. Do you enjoy collaborating with people from other domains (business, design, engineering) to deliver solutions?

8. Are you willing to continuously learn new frameworks, tools, and technologies as practical needs evolve?

9. Do you enjoy debugging and refining working systems rather than only theorizing?

10. Do you want to apply computing skills to domains like healthcare, logistics, finance, or environmental systems?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. Modern computers have the ability to follow generalized sets of operations, called programs. These programs enable computers to perform an extremely wide range of tasks.
Computer Science
Computer science is the study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the basis for the design and use of computers. It is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications and the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to, information. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems. See glossary of computer science.
Science
Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science
Today, when so much depends on our informed action, we as voters and taxpayers can no longer afford to confuse science and technology, to confound “pure” science and “applied” science.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, in Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World (2007), 181.
Science
The objective world of science has nothing in common with the world of things-in-themselves of the metaphysician. The metaphysical world, assuming that it has any meaning at all, is irrelevant to science.
A. D'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927) footnote, p. 152.
Computer Science
Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.
Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things (1988), Ch. 6
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