I'm a self taught programmer with a engineering degree. I never really did engineering as a career as my first job out of university was as a software develope

I'm a self taught programmer with a engineering degree. I never really did engineering as a career as my first job out of university was as a software developer. What I remember from that time and why I think I picked up programming fairly easily was my engineering degree gave me the skills to think through a problem. I never really had trouble planning out my software designs even though I had no formal training in that area. So in that sense I agree that these two disciplines appear to be similar. I put this down to the problem solving skills I learnt through my Engineering degree.