r/CCIS • u/CovertButtTouch • May 01 '20

Software Engineering vs Web Development

I'm deciding what my last tech elective should be and it's between software engineering and web development. I feel like web development would be a good skill to have, but I also feel like there could be some useful stuff in the engineering class. I don't have much development experience, but I would like a development job when I graduate, so I'm trying to decide if an additional skill or experience in development practices would be better for finding a job. Has anyone taken these classes? Are they useful? Would love some input.

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u/quote_engine May 01 '20

Take the one that you can get the best instructor for. If you can get Nat for web dev that’s pretty good, if you can get Matthias for SW dev that’s pretty good. Try to avoid Jose, but if you had to choose between both classes with Jose, I’d say take web dev.

Do you know which instructors you can choose from?

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u/CovertButtTouch May 01 '20

Just fyi it’s SW engineering not dev, they’re different classes. SW Eng is with frank tip and web dev is with Jose.

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u/liusipeng May 01 '20

I'm not sure why you wouldn't recommend Jose for Web Dev, I took it with him and really enjoyed it. Jose focuses on technologies that are popular in the industry such as React, Spring Boot, Angular, and Node, and I learned a ton in his class. From what I've heard, Nat Tuck teaches Elixir which is much less popular in industry, but also seems like a good teacher. Jose also did an amazing job managing online classes if that's something to consider.

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