My sister’s boyfriend says that he is majoring in computer science because he wants to be a software engineer for Google someday.
I don’t understand arent Software E and CS to different majors?
btw I would like to go CS on the fall 2018.
Most CS graduates end up doing software engineering. A software engineering degree tends to be a less theoretical, more job-oriented version of a CS degree.
ok but to be a software engineer u major in CS or software engineering ? @simba9
You can major in either. Basically, software engineering is a subset of CS.
Few colleges offer a specific software engineering major. CS departments commonly include software engineering courses or as part of other courses.
You can kind of think of CS as the theoretical, more math leaning portion and SW Engineering is more of the practical stuff, like setting you up for the industry. It’d be more difficult to learn the practical stuff and then be retrained for all the theoretical stuff you need to know. Instead, you learn all the mathematical and theoretical portion in school, and you get trained on how the company you work for do things. Every company is different and there’s no one set method of software engineering.
But there’s a bunch of overlap between the two majors and they both prepare you for the basics.