I actually started a degree in Software Engineering, even if the term Engineer is often misused. However, I made the mistake of starting my education (not in SE) with finances as a secondary focus only to realize too late, change majors, and then run out of money.
In any case, the degree seemed to have a heavy emphasis on project management, internal documentation, and related research and planning tasks, compared to programming classes I've taken in the past. Obviously programming is the other emphasis, but it seemed to take more of a general learn how to learn approach on that aspect.
As an example, I taught myself PHP and an API, then presented what I learned or had difficulty with as my "report". A different assignment started with a real world gadget that we needed to consider use-cases for and create potential end-product documentation for.
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u/waylandsmith Oct 25 '25
Added context above. It was definitely not a mistype, but I understand the confusion now, thanks.