<p>I’m wondering if this point has any validity.</p>
<p>A CE/EE major can potentially write more effective software due to their understanding of how the software interacts with the hardware.</p>
<p>anyway , i declared major, computer science today</p>
<p>quantize:</p>
<p>Except the most important factor determining overall system performance is not local optimization but the high-level algorithms, data structures, and software architecture.</p>
<p>I would imagine that CS/SE majors are better prepared in these areas. Ideally, you would have a team of people with different backgrounds working on any given software project:
- Computer scientists to deal with high-level and theoretical issues dealing with computation
- Software engineers to deal with the meat and potatoes of analysis, design, and testing
- Programmers to work with the others on implementation
- Computer engineers to deal with low-level and practical issues dealing with hardware</p>
<p>These are in addition to other, non CS/SE/CE roles. For instance, the following might be useful in a given project:
- Mathematicians to aid CS efforts and in analyzing the domain problem
- Industrial engineers to perform certain modeling and organizational activities
- Physicists to aid in domain issues
- Electrical Engineers to aid CEs and go to even lower levels</p>
<p>But, back to the point: CE majors might have an edge in fine-tuning code, but that’s not where most of the savings occurs.</p>
<p>this is some role-playing shiste. im so down. im thinking that the following players would be useful for any software project:</p>
<ul>
<li>a warrior to hit stuff with swords</li>
<li>a rogue to pickpocket and loot enemies</li>
<li>a cleric for healing</li>
<li>a mage to provide magical support</li>
</ul>
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<p>how low can they go?!?</p>
<p>Yes, silence_kit, same principle. And they said D&D never did nothing for nobody!</p>
<p>EE majors? They can go to the bottom. In fact, they make everybody else’s bottom look like the top.</p>