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Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.. But software engineering (or development) is much more than just coding.
by Ozzie_osman 5y ago
Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.. But software engineering (or development) is much more than just coding.
- Ekaros 5y agoIsn't software engineering pretty much ifs and loops too? Massively complicated ifs, and looping pretty much samething over and over again.
- 0xdada 5y agocoding is just ifs and for loops, computer science is just types, (to me) software engineering is a mix of those two
- scubbo 5y agoI like "Coding is to Software Engineering, as building a chair is to running a furniture factory". You need to know a fair amount about the former to excel at the latter - but the latter also requires project management, process and product design, collaboration, and communication skills.
- larsrc 5y agoI like the phrasing "software engineering is programming integrated over time." It involves things like rollouts, migrations, deprecations, adapting to new requirements, and designing in so a way as to make all those easier.
- astrange 5y agoThe part that does stuff is just ifs and + signs. But making a computer do stuff isn't hard; that's what they're for. The problem in software engineering is stopping it from doing the wrong things. (Hot take: the way we do this is wrong; we should be adding superpowerful not-doing-stuff features to languages, vs doing-stuff features.)