The Life of a Software Engineer

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 4, 2008 @06:54AM from the code-as-an-art-form dept.

Jonathan Wise writes to share with us an interesting bit of prose describing life as a software engineer. "I am, in the States, known as a Software Engineer. In Canada we're not allowed to call ourselves engineers, although the discipline is no less rigorous than any other kind of engineering. But perhaps its for the best, because 'engineering' describes only a part of what I do. A software developer must be part writer and poet, part salesperson and public speaker, part artist and designer, and always equal parts logic and empathy."

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Re:No less rigourous? by Machtyn · 2008-02-04 08:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

I seem to recall a large amount of technical equipment with hardware and software connected to me when I was in the hospital. I would hope that equipment has gone through the rigors of an engineering method.