Software Engineering focuses on the process of designing software -- high level stuff. Finishing the course, you should be able to take an idea and design a whole software solution for it, regardless of the programming language involved.
Computer Science in very general, too general to be of much use without specialization. You'll learn some programming, some software design, hardware, networking, everything. Very useful stuff, but you'll need to supplement it with plenty of experience to get much out of it.
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Anonymous2006-11-28 4:30
Software Engineering is www.opera.com
Computer Science is Opera sucks sure there's an ebuild for opera but it just get dropped to /opt, it's statically linked, and it's
CLOSED SOURCE, which means that it is a BINARY PACKAGE
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Anonymous2006-11-28 5:06
Software engineering is engineering, computer science is science. All clear? Good.
Don't choose either. QUIT NOW. Your degree is worthless.
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Anonymous2006-11-28 19:07
Your logic is retarded. Computer Science is better.
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Anonymous2006-11-28 22:41
THANKS GUYZ
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Anonymous2006-11-28 22:43
A computer science degree is like a ticket to fame, riches, sex, respect, and power, plus, you will be the fucking man (or possible woman).
A software engineering degree means you will post on slashdot and die of a heart attack.
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Anonymous2006-11-29 4:42
>>14 A computer science degree is like a ticket to fame, riches, sex, respect, and power, plus, you will be the fucking man (or possible woman).
Agree on the rest, but somewhow I doubt sex.
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Anonymous2006-11-29 7:51
A computer science degree means you will post on slashdot and die of a heart attack. A software engineering degree means you will post on slashdot and die of a heart attack.
Fixed.
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Anonymous2006-11-29 9:49
Computer science is the theory and maths behind it.
Software engineering is taking that theory and putting it to good use building programmes.
However, now days, they two are mixed and muddled up, and are most likely used interchangeably by a lot of places.
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Anonymous2006-11-29 19:23
Computer Science: 1/0
Software Engineering: hello im fairX the haxxor join my community of hackers if you payme enough i will give you access to a private area of haxx ;)
>>22 computer science fails for providing the wrong kind of maths.
I agree with this.
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Anonymous2006-11-30 20:36
At my (UK) University, the two are pretty much identical except SE has a compulsory large businessey (project planning etc.) module, and it gives you the option of doing a 4th year of more SE style modules. You also get an BEng degree rather than CS' BSci.
If your Uni is the same, take CS and pick alternative modules that interest you, then learn the business stuff on a work placement.
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Anonymous2006-12-01 4:32
Business stuff is about reading buzzwords from a magazine or (modern) whitepapers (pretty much like toilet paper), repeating them to your business pals and circle-jerk speeches, and taking every step towards fucking your own business by grossly misunderstanding what your own company does and killing all that gives it any value, until you fold because the dot-com model has failed.