Computer science is the intellectual discipline this FAQ is trying to define. Software engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with the design and implementation of large software systems. Scientific computing is the use of computers in other areas of science, like chemistry or physics. Many CS curricula, including ours, do not cover very much software engineering, in part because many academics do not feel qualified to teach it, and in part because there are so many other, intellectually rich topics that we think are more important. For the most part, responsibility for teaching software engineering has fallen on industry. Industry doesn’t always appreciate that, and often calls on academia to prepare students “better” for work in the code mine. Many academics, though, think that industry is wrong, and that the best preparation for a programmer, or anyone else, is a liberal education that is broad and enlightening. As for scientific computing, it is not clear whether it is a
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