IT vs Computer science

IT vs Computer science

In their most basic terms, Computer Science and Information Technology may not have any difference when being referred to in general and for a good reason, a lot of people do take them to mean more or less the same thing

. However, speaking in strict computing terms, there is indeed a difference between the two terms

.Computer science refers to the processes used to create usable computer programs and applications together with all theory behind those processes

. Information technology on the other hand refers to the application of computer programs to solve business processes

. It is the application of technology in business. Information technology is very vast in terms of scale because it is applied virtually to any type of process that may require automation, from business, scientific research to the music industry, telecoms and banking

.The two terms may also differ depending on school or college, where in some schools they may use one term to refer to a course that combines IT and Computer science modules

. In schools that are more engineering based, they use the computer science term as an umbrella term for all theory relating to information technology

. In such cases they normally use the term ‘computer engineering’ to refer to the process of creating computer programs, both at system level and application level.