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From: greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Software Eng. vs Computer Sci.
Message-ID: <143@hades.OZ>
Date: 21 Feb 89 04:33:08 GMT
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in article <297@Intrepid.ece.ukans.edu>, palexand@Intrepid.ece.ukans.edu (Perry Alexander) says:
>					 Although the distinction is fuzzy, and
> oversimplified, the math/cs folks do the pure science and the software
> engineers apply that to current problems.

There seems to be an awful lot of overlap here; which is not necessarily a bad
thing - no doubt it's mainly political, but at my Uni there's very little
co-ordination between the schools of Math, Comp. Sci, and Engineering - all of
which offer subjects in "computing".

>					 In fact, at the school I attend now,
> Software Engineering is a part of the Computer Engineering degree, granted by
> the school of engineering, rather than a part of the Computer Science degree
> granted by college of liberal arts. 

I'm currently undertaking a Computer Engineering degree, granted by the school
of Electrical Engineering, at the Uni of Technology down here in .oz. It
certainly seems that the school of Computing Science (and hence their
students) aren't as far into Software-Engineering as the engineering people
are; but then all the CASE equipment we're using is brand new [we're the
first year to use it] so they aren't necessarily far behind. I get the
general impression though that Computer Science are teaching their students
LOTS of languages; whilst Engineering are teaching us LOTS of concepts
instead.

> Obviously, there is a need for somftware engineering to be taught.  The
> big question is should it be a seperate entity from CS.
.
>			 I would propose that a CS degree and a software
> engineering degree will behave much the same.

Ummmm..... well; there shouldn't really be any difference should there?. I
percieve my "Computer Engineering" course as being more Hardware oriented
than "Computer Science" but more Software oriented than "Electrical
Engineering"; this may be different in other institutions, but if this is
the case (CASE, get it? :-), isn't the logical place for "Software
Engineering", in Computer Science?

				regs,
					Greyham
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