r/computerscience↗
Computer Science
A place to discuss the academic field of computer science, including research, computing theory, and the theory behind software engineering/programming (e.g. language design).
525k subscribers108 posts / mo in Sep 2026103 authors / mosince 2008
r/computerscience has 525k members (+11% over the last 12 months). It gets about 108 posts a month from 103 people. Top topics: Computer Science Major, Data Structures & Algorithms and CS Career & Jobs.
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- Computer Science Major4.6%
- Data Structures & Algorithms2.6%
- CS Career & Jobs2.1%
- Computer Science Education2.0%
- Learning Resources1.9%
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Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- arXiv.org e-Print archive
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Substack
- Stanford University
- Stack Exchange
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