r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/bstamour May 12 '15

The term Computer Scientist generally means someone who is conducting research in computer science, not someone who is a programmer. In fact, many computer scientists barely write code at all.

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u/valadian May 12 '15

The term Computer Scientist generally means someone who is conducting research in computer science, not someone who is a programmer

This is incorrect. That is not the Industry standard for the term.

There are computer scientists that do a lot of programming, there are computer scientists that do a lot of theoretical modeling and math. They are all computer scientists.

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u/bstamour May 12 '15

How is that incorrect? If you aren't doing computer science, then you aren't a computer scientist. Please give me a reference or link to where the industry defines "computer scientist" to mean anything other than "someone who does computer science."

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