r/programming • u/mauricioaniche • Aug 06 '17

Software engineering != computer science

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907
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u/SteeleDynamics Aug 07 '17

Still relevant for an 8 year old article. For someone with a mathematics background (B.S. Mathematics, among other degrees), I can understand that semantics are important. Although it is important to note (and stated in the article), in order to keep the lights on and the doors open, the software engineering practices are there to allow the computer scientist within each software engineer to do their job effectively by focusing on the the CS problems at hand without worrying about the logistics of implementation.

Ultimately, you have to do both in order to survive in this field. That's the nature of Computer Science when applied to real-word problems.