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In what I do (mostly business cruds) it is mostly an art. The skill is not to get it done, but to organise the code effectively so that it will be easy to debug
by ArtB 14y ago
In what I do (mostly business cruds) it is mostly an art. The skill is not to get it done, but to organise the code effectively so that it will be easy to debug and adapt and reuse etc. It really doesn't feel like a science and more like being an editor of an anthology.
- scott_s 14y agoI consider that software engineering. "Doing" computer science means you're doing research. To keep abusing the physics analogy, your work (software engineering) is to mine (computer science) as mechanical engineers are to physicists.
- pm90 14y agoInteresting. I talked about this with a friend, who did her BS in Math and Physics and now is a PhD in engineering. What we finally agreed was that physics is just so vast, that the `practical' aspects have spawned engineering branches. i.e mechanics == mechanical engineering, electromagnetism == electrical engineering, atomic physics == nuclear engineering and so on. Maybe we should do the same with Computer Science