Hi Michael, On Tuesday 05 February 2002 1:13 pm, Michael Brown wrote:
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Gary Stainburn wrote:
There is a growing shortage of *good* programmers and software engineers (is there a difference?)
I would say that there is. I would expect a programmer to be able to take a specification and, from that, design and implement a program to meet the specification. I would expect a software engineer to be able to come up with the specification as well as doing the design and implementation.
You could look at it as "programmers write code, software engineers build products".
There you hit one of the common inconsistancies of the day. You, as I do, believe that the term 'Software Engineer' is synonymous with the traditional Systems Analyst, or the Analyst/Programmer. However, other see it as simply the programmer's role, while yet others don't destinguish at all and lump everything under the same umbrella. Depends on whether you're offering a job position or wanting one too I suppose.
Just my opinion. YMMV.
Michael
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