Software Engineering vs. Computer Programming

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“Computer science” is a branch of mathematics that studies computability, algorithms, discrete structures, formal languages, that kind of thing. Computer science can be studied without the aid of actual computers (and often is) or can be studied in such a way that the computers/languages you actually do use are incidental. Like what kind of pen a writer uses, or what kind of telescope an astronomer uses. When you take a class like “discrete structures” or “algorithms,” one of those classes where it’s all pen-and-paper analysis and no actual programming, this would be a “computer science” class.

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<p>I have to disagree with you here. Software Engineering and programming are both proper subsets of Computer Science. What you described is theoretical computer science not all of computer science. We have a class called “software engineering” wheere we learn about software methodologies, design, requirements and all of that stuff. Software Engineering is the closest degree to CS but instead of taking Computer Architecture, computability and a few other CS classes, they specialize in the part of CS related to making software</p>