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I found this article useful to differenciate between IT and CS
IT = Information Technology
CS = Computer Science
The article is on
http://mti.itb.ac.id/english/education/it.htm
Although information technology has strong roots in computer science and computer engineering, there are some important differences, which can help to define IT. These differences fall into professional and curricular categories:
Professional Aspect
The computer scientist and engineers tends to be motivated by the computer itself, by how it works under the hood, while the information technologist is motivated by using the computer a tool to solve problems for people.
The information technologist identifies a need for technology, which the computer scientist and engineers then creates, and which the information technologist finally helps people to use effectively.
Curricular Aspect
There is a stronger emphasis on programming in computer science and computer hardware in computer engineering than in information technology. The information technologist clearly needs to be able to build software applications and computer systems, but the typical IT project involves gluing together available components with high-level environments like Visual Basic, rather than writing large programs from scratch using traditional programming languages.
Computer science and engineers also requires significantly more math and science than information technology, mainly because extending the underlying technology requires a more thorough mathematical foundation than applying that technology.
The computer science and engineering curricula are “deeper” in that there are more required prerequisites for the intermediate and advanced courses. Information technology has a flatter prerequisite structure, which facilitates the transfer of students into IT from non-technological majors.
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