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Good point. I think most Java projects use only about 2% of Spring!

There is certainly a place for "a little coding", as you put it. I used to work in an investment bank where traders would write their own Excel macros to perform duties it would've…

I kind of agree that there is a place for coding without becoming a developer, but what these recent "code schools" seem to be doing is trivialising software development itself. I …

Thanks for the share, rubikscube. Much appreciated!

Wow... this hit Hacker News a second time! I agree, perhaps we should be pushing more in the direction of engineering... at least for certain kinds of project / product. At startup…

Great comment, thanks. I agree on the difference between a Computer Science degree and a Software engineering degree. I have the former (Comp Sci), and that's the premise for my ar…

I'm simply going with the definition of true "engineering" taught to me as a software engineering major at university... and specifically that we don't do that formal definition of…

Great point. Modelling and understanding what's being built are certainly important aspects of engineering.

Yes, very true. And I am also comparing the startup flavour of software development (which I am involved in), rather than perhaps other flavours, such as finance, health care, etc.…

Great point!

Great points, thanks. I agree, there are perhaps more similarities between software development, and traditional engineering, than I figured.

Very true!

Great point!

Great point. Perhaps we'll be able to classify certain software practices as "engineering". Maybe even stricter forms of Agile. It would be great to head in the direction of it bec…

That's a great point, and one of the reasons I was originally taught it isn't "engineering", strictly. I think we do a lot of what counts as engineering. But, you're right, we aren…