{"id":2146,"date":"2016-03-17T01:35:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T06:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:43:04","slug":"software-engineers-and-software-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/03\/software-engineers-and-software-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Engineers and Software Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Being a computer programmer does not make me a software engineer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deep sigh before I begin. This is yet another post borne of frustration in talking with recruiters and hiring managers. Now that the sigh is out of the way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A computer programmer is not a software engineer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There. Wrote that bit.<\/p>\n<p>Software engineers do a lot of tasks in addition to programming. Please see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_engineering\">Wikipedia article on software engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer.org\/web\/swebok\">IEEE&#8217;s Software Engineering Body of Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Encyclopedia-Software-Engineering-John-Marciniak\/dp\/0471210072\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1454768542&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=encyclopedia+of+software+engineering\">Encyclopedia of Software Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you have finished those, perhaps you will agree that being a computer programmer does not make me a software engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Being a computer programmer does not make me a software engineer. Deep sigh before I begin. This is yet another post borne of frustration in talking with recruiters and hiring managers. Now that the sigh is out of the way. A computer programmer is not a software engineer. There. Wrote that bit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,115,23,67],"tags":[200,227,145,187],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-programming","category-work","tag-computing","tag-engineering","tag-programming","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}