This has the making of an IQ test questions... If some programmers are engineers and some engineers are developers...
-----Original Message----- From: Johnny Le [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:13 PM To: CF-Jobs-Talk Subject: Re: software developers vs web-site developers? Hi Mike, You confused me even more. In your ad, you distinguished between software developers and web site developers, but here you distinguish between engineers and programmers. Are you saying software developers are like engineers and web site developers are like programmers? Johnny >Actually, it was the recruiters language, not mine. On the other hand, I am >writing an article to distinguish between programmers and software >engineers. >The difference can be summarized as an engineer has the time and ability to >plan out a whole application from 0 to finish. They use UML, OO, and full >documentation before beginning. A programmer usually does not have the time >or ability to do all that. They write code for an app that may be >standalone, may be an extension of something already in existence or a patch >for a bug. There's little planning vs. implementing and usually little >documentation. >For example, I'm mainly a programmer. I don't have the luxury of doing full >scale planning for my own stuff or at my job. I can do the full engineer >thing with pages of docs, designs, etc. but it falls down to time. I need to >implement something now, not 3-6 months down the road. An engineer is >looking at that time frame or more. >This is not to say an engineer is not a programmer or a programmer is not an >engineer. It's saying that the approach, mindset and focus is different. > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Contribute 3 from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=53 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2159 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/11 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:11 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
