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I think that software engineering should be merged into computer science, because the vast majority of computer science students are going for software engineer
by ilaksh 5y ago
I think that software engineering should be merged into computer science, because the vast majority of computer science students are going for software engineering careers. So the software engineering stuff should be introduced along with the programming material and developed throughout. If you end up displacing some computer science theory that isn't critical then that would be fine.
- b20000 5y agoany good CS program at university level will have at least 50% of coursework dedicated to software engineering and hands on programming projects.
- davidhbolton 5y agoA CS degree when I got mine (41 years ago) was half and half though it wasn't called software engineering. Back then the "engineering stuff" was practical: things like programming, calculating latencies of disk drives and stuff like that. But the other half really needed a grounding in pure maths. (I'm British). I used to look at Computer Science journals and it was all pure maths stuff.
- b20000 5y agoat my university CS was born out of the math dept, so same deal. I had several hardcore math courses in the first year, then tapering off slowly across the next 3 years of the program.