Using "computer programmer" and "software engineer" as synonyms has done untold damage to the profession.
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Using "computer programmer" and "software engineer" as synonyms has done untold damage to the profession. Programming is only ONE component of software engineering, and yet it's the only part people tend to focus on when discussion the profession as a whole. There's so much more to making maintainable software than just writing it.
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Using "computer programmer" and "software engineer" as synonyms has done untold damage to the profession. Programming is only ONE component of software engineering, and yet it's the only part people tend to focus on when discussion the profession as a whole. There's so much more to making maintainable software than just writing it.
I've been a programmer for over 20 years but I didn't really understand software engineering as a whole until I'd been programming for over half a decade. One of the reasons I started mGBA was to get practice actually applying software engineering at scale, since until that point it had been more toy projects and a handful of horribly written larger projects. Just writing small one-offs doesn't really let you exercise all the skills you need for coding at scale. But it was never really taught to me and I had to sort of pick it up along the way.
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