Computer Science

The study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application.

Information Architecture is one of the branches of Computer Science. Other branches important to the topic include:

Software Development: The practices involved in creating software, one of the domains of computer science
Data Modelling: A data model formally defines the data elements and the relationships between them for a domain of interest A data model describes how data is represented and accessed.

The general public sometimes confuses computer science with vocational areas that deal with computers (such as information technology), or think that it relates to their own experience of computers. However, the focus of computer science is more on understanding the properties of the programs used to implement such software, and using that understanding to create new programs or improve existing ones.

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The following pages link to here: Computer Science, Index, Information technology, Logical, Software Development, Uses for IA