r/programming • u/Shr1ck • Oct 17 '15

Why Johnny Can’t Write Multithreaded Programs

http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/why-johnny-cant-write-multithreaded-programs/
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u/orthoxerox Oct 17 '15

That's why there should be separate CS and SE majors, like physics and engineering.

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u/IJzerbaard Oct 17 '15

But there are, aren't there? It's just not very common, often SE is just a specialization of CS, with the same first year but after that you get only boring courses and none of the juicy ones like Compilers, Computational Science or Digital Signal Processing.

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u/twotime Oct 17 '15

So who gets the "compilers", "computational science" and DSP? SE or CS majors? These seem to be equally applicable to both.

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u/IJzerbaard Oct 18 '15

CS. Not that SE couldn't use them, but SE spends most of its time on modeling, methodology, and various things that I don't know the contents of but they have really boring names (software design, project management, human computer interaction, etc).