Felienne Hermans & Hanna Schraffenberger

Computer Science Off Course

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The Computer Science Off Course podcast brings you one paper or book each week to widen your view on what Computer Science is, and what it could be. Turing, Naur, Dreyfus, Laurel, and many more will bring some much-needed change in perspective for people who grew up on an information diet of only complex algorithms, programming, and math! Read along with Felienne and Hanna, do the homework and see that there is more between heaven and earth than computers and compilers.

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Felienne Hermans & Hanna Schraffenberger

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Peter Naur - Programming as Theory Building 07.07.2026 40:54

What is programming? This week, we take a stab at this fundamental question with Peter Naur's paper "Programming as Theory Building". Felienne has read the paper (more than once), and Hanna is asking her questions about it. Apparently, programming is more than just solving problems by writing code and involves theory building! Listen in to hear more about what this theory building entails (spoiler...

Everything you did not want to know about computer science! (Just teasing) 01.07.2026 16:19

Our teaser episode for the Computer Science Off Course podcast! We bring you one paper or book each week to widen your view on what Computer Science is, and what it could be. Turing, Naur, Dreyfus, Laurel, and many more will bring some much-needed change in perspective for people who grew up on an information diet of only complex algorithms, programming, and math! Read along with us (Felienne and...