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While I totally agree with you on the 'it's not engineering in the engineering kind of sense'-part, there's another interesting point a friend once brought up i
by Joe-Z 9y ago
While I totally agree with you on the 'it's not engineering in the engineering kind of sense'-part, there's another interesting point a friend once brought up in conversation:
At least where I'm from, telling people what I do, I often get labeled as a 'computer person'. You know, kind of estranged from the real world and not good for anything practical (and mind you, after college I shed a lot of my admittedly nerdy past). Coining the term 'software engineer', with the word 'engineer' being something people can relate to and see it as a respectable profession, I think can help a bit in conveying that yes, what we do is a real and important job and no, we are not all geeks that totally like to be in their dark basements all day.
- Koshkin 9y agoSoftware engineering is no less 'engineering' than, say, designing computer hardware - if anything, simply because there is often a piece of software hiding inside a microchip, but also, more generally, because the process of logical design of digital electronics is not much different from writing a program - especially if it is designed using what is essentially a programming language (Verilog, VHDL, etc.).