<p>so i just finished my freshman year of engineering. we took an analysis class where we basically were introduced to and learned the basics of matlab and c++. I absolutely loved this class and loved the programming while everyone else hated it. We were always given homwork assignments to write a specific program and i loved the challenge of trying to complete it. So i am still a little unsure of which type of engineering i want to major in and was wandering which one uses the most computers/software/programming to complete daily tasks on the job and how often is this?</p>
<p>software/computer engineers uses the most.</p>
<p>However, electrical has alot of programming courses too and I used to have a job that requires plenty of C# programming on control systems (scada) as a ee.</p>
<p>Literally any engineering discipline can be very programming intensive. For example, nearly all branches of engineering involve computer modeling of phenomena important to that field, and that certainly requires a lot of programming. In the end, it all depends mostly on the sort of jobs you want in the end. You can program a computer in any type of engineering role. You are better off figuring out what industry you want to enter and what topics you want to study and go from there. Computer science can go into nearly any industry and certainly uses a lot of programming, but it isn’t the only option and there are other types of problems to tackle with programming other than the types computer scientists are used for.</p>
<p>A big part of CS/software engineering is programming. What bonehead said is right, there are way too many problems programming can solve to be covered in 4 years</p>