blog: Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 22/10/2010 15:56, Diego Cano Lagneaux wrote:
>> 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.
>

Which degree did 'Software engineers' take then?

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer