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Re:My First Year of Coding by noonespecial on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @10:53PM (#7520632)
How much code must one coder write, before we call them engineer? Yes'n how many roads must a man walk down...
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Re:My First Year of Coding by nickthemagicman on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:10PM (#7520707)
Its not code its algorithms, backus naur notation, software patterns, etc.

The differences betweem an architect and an civil engineer is the math.

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Re:My First Year of Coding by pedrosorio on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:40AM (#7521307)
Yes, because civil engineer = architect + math, what a good analogy (hint: no, it's not, until people that have studied civil engineering and not architecture start winning the Pritzker regularly).

Do you also think the difference between a doctor and a biomedical engineer is math?

P.S.: I agree with your first point, but the analogy you chose is really bad. Self-taught coder isn't to a software engineer what an architect is to a civil engineer.

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