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The theories behind computer science have little very application in large software engineering. software engineering != computer science
by debacle 14y ago
The theories behind computer science have little very application in large software engineering.
software engineering != computer science
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoThat's preposterous. Computer science is directly applicable to understanding issues of scalability, searching, hashing, database properties, network routes and looping, the list goes on and on. Computer science is a lot more than proofs.
- debacle 14y agoNone of those things deal with maintainability, design by contract, interface design, etc. When you're writing a multi-million dollar piece of software (20+ man-years), the technical problems are the easy ones to solve. Actually putting the thing together is the hard part.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoWell said. Computer Engineering is a lot more than programming languages. But does it take a college education to get there? Or a seminar on the latest tool chain.
- sp332 14y agoThe theories behind computer science are used all the time in large software engineering. They're just not the interesting part.
- swa14 14y agoHell, software engineering isn't even engineering. 'you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.".' http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036... "Software engineering" has little to do with engineering and its principles and everything with applying buzzwords to squeeze the most money out of whomever was suckered into paying for the project.