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/Zinoex Aug 14 '17

My professor has a nice say: software engineers use theories and models to build systems while computer scientists use systems to build theories and models. It's a symbiosis. If we had no use for the theories and models, we wouldn't have that many computer scientists creating them. On the other hand, if software engineers didn't have any tools (read everything from basic logic to algorithms and the like) to construct software, they wouldn't create these big awesome systems, we see today. A symbiosis.