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The goal of this chapter differs from the following chapters that each are devoted to a specific technical topic. Here, we aim to tell the story of the foundation of computer science as an autonomous research discipline in an understandable and entertaining way. Trying to achieve this goal, we provide some impressions about the way in which sciences develop and what the fundamental building blocks of computer sciences look like. In this way we get to know some of the goals of the basic research in computer science as well as a part of its overlap with other research disciplines. We also use this chapter to introduce all ten subjects of the following chapters in the context of the development of computer science.
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Hromkovič, J. (2009). A Short Story About the Development of Computer Science or Why Computer Science Is Not a Computer Driving Licence. In: Algorithmic Adventures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85986-4_1
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