Comparison of software engineering and related fields
- Comparison of software engineering and related fields
The relationships between software engineering and the fields of programming, computer science, and traditional engineering have been debated for decades. Software engineering resembles all of these fields, but important distinctions exist.
Comparing programming
Both programmers and software engineers work on all sizes of projects: small and large.
Programmers emphasize the task of writing code to produce working software applications.
Software engineering tries to encompass software projects more completely, fitting them into a business context with relationships to marketing, sales, production, installation, training, support, and operations; and methods to construct large applications that individual programmers cannot write alone.
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