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by hedora 833 days ago
Software engineering has as much to do with sociology as it does with math.

Systems software has to deal with a lot of physics and engineering stuff (speed of light, power, heat, mean time to component failure, etc, etc.)

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Software Engineering and Computer Science don't necessarily mean the same thing (even though at this point, most schools with CS programs just teach software engineering anyway).