What computer science would you need for astrophysics?

[victorhugo]

when they say c.s., do they mean a coding language? if so, which one(s)?

 

[FactChecker]

You might check out the astrophysics package for Python and see if it looks interesting. Python is a popular language these days and it is free. A lot of scientific work is being done with it.
See https://pythonhosted.org/Astropysics/

 

[diogenesNY]

You might find the following clickable list of links useful or at least diverting:

http://distrowatch.com/?cx=partner-...eurl=distrowatch.com/&ref=&ss=4464j2472822j12

Here are two versions of Linux (freely downloadable) that are designed for scientific research (the second one is oriented towards bioinformatics, but still interesting)

http://distrowatch.com/scientific
http://distrowatch.com/biolinux

I recommend poking about the distrowatch site just to see what you find. Its a fun way to burn off quite a bit of time.

diogenesNY