What is the difference between a computer scientist and a computer engineer?

[Demon-Xanth]

 

[Fayd]

that sucked.

 

[nanette1985]

No, the second one is the computer tech. THe computer engineer is the one who gets paid a lot of money to yell at the tech to fix the thing.

 

[TheSpy007]

Ive always though of comp science= programming, comp engi = hardware

 

[zebano]

Ive always though of comp science= programming, comp engi = hardware

It's more along the lines of comp sci = app programming/db work
comp eng = embedded systems/ driver development / bsp work.

 

[vshah]

comp sci is basically software development, software research, database stuff.
engineering can go anywhere from embedded systems to cpu design.

almost every CE program i've heard of requires a decent number of CS classes as well (but not the really intense ones)

 

[JTsyo]

Ive always though of comp science= programming, comp engi = hardware

That's how it was in college.

 

[edro]

My CE degree was half electrical engineering classes (calc, DC, AC, signals etc) and half programming and embedded systems classes (C, Java, Basic, Assembly, Networking).

CS is more programming and less math/electrical.

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

programming is one of the occupations which can lead from comp science, but the "science" part comes from the study of algorithms and computation.

 

[RedCOMET]

So, what's the difference between a Software Engineering and a Software Developer?

 

[edro]

So, what's the difference between a Software Engineering and a Software Developer?

nothing

 

[Sahakiel]

So, what's the difference between a Software Engineering and a Software Developer?

Respect

 

[Estrella]

i/10

 

[Blueychan]

programming is one of the occupations which can lead from comp science, but the "science" part comes from the study of algorithms and computation.

this

 

[Rubycon]

Will it run Crysis?

 

[chorb]

[g]eecs for life yo!

 

[her209]

It's more along the lines of comp sci = app programming/db work
comp eng = embedded systems/ driver development / bsp work.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I'd say a Computer Engineer can do any work that a Computer Scientist can do while the reverse is not true because of the EE work.

 

[davmat787]

So, what's the difference between a Software Engineering and a Software Developer?

At Microsoft, your typical software developers have a job title of "Software Design Engineer" or SDE. They do the actual coding for the most part, of the component(s) they own. Their test counterparts are "Software Design Engineers in Test", or SDET's. They code the stress tools, test automation harness, test tools, code validation, etc.

So at MSFT at least, software developer / engineer are the same thing.

 

[vshah]

I don't necessarily disagree, but I'd say a Computer Engineer can do any work that a Computer Scientist can do while the reverse is not true because of the EE work.

mostly. definitely easier for an EE to moonlight as a CS than the opposite, which is almost impossible.

 

[ussfletcher]

j/10

fixed

 

[Jeff7]

Love SMBC.

Why?
Because it's fucking awesome.