Ekaros 9 hours ago

Sometimes I think it would be good to have separate terms.

Programming is just writing code. It might or might not be complicated say you fine tune some assembly algorithm.

Developing would be next step up. As you need bigger view.

Software engineering is when you start to consider what would be good engineering and making decisions before just writing code.

Software architecturing is interdisciplinary with engineering and happens is larger systems.

I really think we have done lot of disservice, by grouping all of the things also under coding or programming.

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  • mek6800d2 3 hours ago

    That's the way it was decades ago. In the mid-1980s, a headhunter cold-called me at work and asked what I did. I answered, "I'm a computer programmer." Sounding severely disappointed, he said, "Oh ... Is there anyone in your office who designs programs?" I responded, "Yes, we all do." I was aware of this mindset from books I'd read in the late 1970s when I first got interested in computers.

    In the 1990s, I worked as a contractor at a very large engineering corporation and I was surprised to discover they still had developers who only designed programs down to the pseudocode level and then handed them off to "programmers" for coding. I thought this was stupid as all get out as there was no feedback mechanism in place, so the "designers" never learned of and from their mistakes. (And a feedback mechanism wouldn't be enough in my opinion, as the designers really needed to be mired in the mud of producing a working system.) This was especially serious as some of the programs ran on embedded real-time computers and the designers had no hands-on experience with the real-time OS and would not gain that experience simply through designing.

    Experienced programmers do bits at all 4 of the levels without consciously thinking, "I'm doing engineering here, developing there, ..."

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