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If that's what a school wants to do, then it should just discontinue CS and rename it software engineering. Actually, my old school had such a major...

• jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
  It's not an either/or. Software Engineering is a part of Computer Science.
  • quanticle 15y ago
    I dispute that. Mechanical engineering isn't physics and neither is electrical engineering. Chemical engineering isn't chemistry (it is, in fact, more thermo- and fluid-dynamics). So, in the same way, software engineering isn't computer science. At best, it has a relationship analogous to that between applied mathematics and pure math.
  • runevault 15y ago
    Part, but if they focus so completely on the subset, then is it really computer science anymore?
  • burgerbrain 15y ago
    Unfortunately the trend seems to be the replacement of one with the other. What I am suggesting, one major for each, is exactly the opposite of either/or.