Software engineering is not the same as computer science

Every year, around this time, a bunch of CS majors graduate from university and start complaining about how they don’t know how to do software development work.

I took CS classes. I’m also now a software engineer. After quite a few years, I think I have a decent understanding of the two.

In summary: software engineering is to computer science as writing a novel is to linguistics.

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