Coding includes things like simulating water and electricity, hence it is more complicated. For example, lets say you want to code to check that your electric

Coding includes things like simulating water and electricity, hence it is more complicated. For example, lets say you want to code to check that your electric setup is right. Then you implement the concepts voltage, current, frequency, DC AC etc, and run it to see what the end result looks like. Coding this is of course more complicated than learning about the concepts in the first place. And as have been said many times before, coding this system is often the easiest part of the job, then you have to add all the helper systems, the UI etc, and that is the really hard part that often is the reason projects fails. Of course taking electrical engineering in college is way harder than software engineering or computer science, but that is because the software engineering and computer science tracks in college are usually a joke. If you had to be able to code systems as described above then it wouldn't be easier at all.