There's no Computing at York and the Computer Science course has several mandatory practical elements. That and the Software Engineering course is CS with an additional year and more specialisation in the second.
What it comes down to is that CS is a rubbish name and everyone thinks they can do better, but hasn't managed to yet
Yeh depends where you go, but if we are going for pure meaning, a comp sci would make the stuff under instruction of a software engineer (until the cmp sci had experiance) only for the computing student to break it and send it back to the comp sci.
(Original post by -Em-)
Erm, that doesn't sound like any definition I've ever heard of.
A Computer Scientist isn't a code monkey.
Nah there not lol, but in general they are the ones who build stuff from the ground up, doesn't have to be code. Could be new applications of tecnology like AI, mind it does normally mean working with code it doesnt have too.
Where as a computing student if we are going on pure definition would be the one who uses the tecnology on a day to day situation.
(Original post by laser)
That's a crap analogy, and you're getting it backwards. A software engineer is the one that does the building. You know, because they have engineer in their name.
If you had done some reading above you would see I said they did and compsci's do it after some experance. That said systems guys normaly design the stuff they don't write the majority of the code they may write some not all.
And yes it was but it was the best I could think of at the time lol.