blog: Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

[Diego Cano Lagneaux]

> Well, you think wrongly. :)
> If you look at the top universities worldwide, the majority of them have  
> only one "computer programming" undergraduate degree. Sometimes it is  
> called "Computer Science" (typical in the US), other times it is called  
> "Computer Engineering", "Informatics Engineering", "Software  
> Engineering", "Informatics Science" or something like that (typical in  
> Europe), but despite the different names they are essentially the same:  
> courses designed to _teach and educate future software engineers_.

I must nuance: as an European* "Informatics (and Applied Maths**)  
engineer", I can say this degree is not 'Software engineer' but indeed  
'whole computer engineer' as we studied both software and hardware, to the  
point of building a complete (simulated) processor.
Furthermore, I can't recall they told us about profiling tools, but it was  
10 years ago and I skiped a few classes, so it means nothing.

* I studied in France, which has the weirdest way of educating engineers:  
2 years in a 'prépa' or 'preparation school for the Engineering Schools  
entry exams', then 2 years of actual degree, and finally a postgraduate  
year *before graduating*. I say this to note that, although we were taught  
a lot of engineering ways, and we covered a wide range of topics, and it  
is oficially a 5 years degree, we did not have a lot of actual software  
courses time so some of it could be a bit shallow. However, my Uni was  
considered at the time the 2nd best of its field in France at the time,  
and France is renowned for its engineers in Europe.

** Don't ask, it was the name of the degree. And it had indeed a lot of  
math (~30%).
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