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The point he's making is that software engineering skills are about a lot more than just programming. Being able to navigate an existing codebase, implement new
by ZephyrBlu 3y ago
The point he's making is that software engineering skills are about a lot more than just programming. Being able to navigate an existing codebase, implement new functionality and blend it into the surroundings is an important skillset that is pretty distinct to just writing code.
- UncleMeat 3y agoThat to me still feels very much like a programming task. To me, broadening to software engineering means things like requirements gathering, timeline estimation, prioritization, etc. If you just wanted to focus on code I'd choose things like writing programs that are extensible over writing extensions to existing programs.
- ZephyrBlu 3y agoAnd yet many people on this post are claiming that they cannot tackle this task for a variety of reasons non-programmming reasons (I.e. they don't even get to the programming bit of software engineering). Sure, it might not hit everything but it hits quite a lot of important skills.