Programming and Software Engineering are related but not the same thing. There is yet another thing - coding, which is also something else. Yes, software engine

Programming and Software Engineering are related but not the same thing. There is yet another thing - coding, which is also something else. Yes, software engineers do program, and programming involves coding. But someone who has come up with, say, a computational algorithm or a formula may ask you to implement it in a form that a computer (or, more likely, a compiler) can understand. That’s coding. Programming, on the other hand, is what we do when we need to solve a specific problem, or a part of a problem, by writing a program or a library of modules, which involves several steps such as choice of data structures and algorithms that make it possible to solve the problem efficiently. Finally, software engineering is building software from various, potentially many, pieces which include custom program modules as well as those written by third parties. The degree of “engineering” involved grows exponentially as we go from mere coding to programming to, well, software engineering.