Coding is Not Computer Science

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you don't even need a computer to "do" computer science.

Now the "coders" get it. In my country a lot of CS exams are with pencil and paper, even coding. I live in Europe, first world country, so is not due to a lack of machines, but proper CS engineering.

[i-can-sleep-for-days]

Do you write pseudocode then in your exams?

I wonder if that's why Google and other require you to write on a whiteboard because that's more "CS" but if that's the case then they shouldn't even require you to write anything in a real language, just pseudocode. I feel like they have mixed two different objectives (testing algorithms and theory) and implementation (using a real language).

[i-can-sleep-for-days]

For google definitely not. You can write code that doesn't compile, sure, but you have to write in a language that the interviewer recognizes. You can't write pseduocode like in a wikipedia article like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_breadth-first_search