blog: Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 31/10/2010 05:35, BCS wrote:
> Hello Bruno,
>
>> Which degree did 'Software engineers' take then?
>>
>
> You know, that's one thing that kinda irks me: Why is it called
> 'Software engineers' when I've never seen engineering taught in a CS
> course (not to be confused with real "computer engineering" courses that
> are a lot more like EE than CS).

What are you referring to when you say "called 'Software engineers'" ? 
The people who write software, or the college degrees/programs? I didn't 
quite get it.

>The most direct example of this I know
> of is in "The Pragmatic Programmer": Item 18 is "estimate to avoid
> surprises" and then goes on to describe how to do that. Well, if
> programming were taught as an engineering discipline, that would be a
> pointless (if not insulting) comment because what it is advocating is so
> fundamental to engineering that it goes without saying.
>
>

What do you mean "if programming were taught as an engineering discipline" ?

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer