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>I wouldn't deify "real" engineering like that. It's different, and more regulated, but it isn't all harder and fancier than all programming. Of course not! So

>I wouldn't deify "real" engineering like that. It's different, and more regulated, but it isn't all harder and fancier than all programming. Of course not! Software engineering is waaaay harder than rocket engineering. That's why there's so many rocket engineering bootcamps all over the place. Just grab some book or join a bootcamp and you can build rockets that fly into space in less than 6 months!! That's what I did, I was a major in poetry and I worked in HR. Then I joined a online bootcamp for rocket engineering and became a rocket engineer for spaceX in less than a year! I got super bored with it and I wanted to try software. When I did the switch to software engineering I couldn't find a single bootcamp in the country. You have to get a PHD in software architecture in order to do this stuff. Super hard! I'm now an expert at drawing lines and circles!

IshKebab 2y ago
If rocket science were as cheap to practice and as in demand as programmers then there absolutely would be rocket science boot camps. There aren't, because the demand for space rockets is very low and they're extremely expensive.
- ninetyninenine 2y ago
  No rocket science is harder due to tiered knowledge. Like physics or theoretical math you need foundations on top of foundations on top of foundations to learn. Software isn’t like this hence why boot camps are more possible. Advanced concepts in CS aren’t practical. Automata theory? Not needed. You literally don’t even need a bootcamp for software tbf.
  - IshKebab 2y ago
    > Advanced concepts in CS aren’t practical They're at least as practical as rockets that go into orbit. And software is absolutely like rocket science in that you need to learn a lot of foundational stuff to do the really advanced rocket science. If you want to do very basic model rocketry then the barrier to entry is pretty much as low as learning Python or whatever.

IshKebab 2y ago

If rocket science were as cheap to practice and as in demand as programmers then there absolutely would be rocket science boot camps. There aren't, because the demand for space rockets is very low and they're extremely expensive.

ninetyninenine 2y ago
No rocket science is harder due to tiered knowledge. Like physics or theoretical math you need foundations on top of foundations on top of foundations to learn. Software isn’t like this hence why boot camps are more possible. Advanced concepts in CS aren’t practical. Automata theory? Not needed. You literally don’t even need a bootcamp for software tbf.
- IshKebab 2y ago
  > Advanced concepts in CS aren’t practical They're at least as practical as rockets that go into orbit. And software is absolutely like rocket science in that you need to learn a lot of foundational stuff to do the really advanced rocket science. If you want to do very basic model rocketry then the barrier to entry is pretty much as low as learning Python or whatever.