Re:Switching to software engineering after 5 years in data s...
by dragonwriter on Friday December 30, 2022 @02:14PM
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> Since most programmers have computer science degrees, why don’t we call ourselves computer scientists?
Because they aren’t doing scientific research, they are applying the products of such research to design (and build; with software the distinction is less significant than with many physical items) products, so its somewhere between architecture/engineering and constructiom, rather than science.
Because they aren’t doing scientific research, they are applying the products of such research to design (and build; with software the distinction is less significant than with many physical items) products, so its somewhere between architecture/engineering and constructiom, rather than science.