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digg_url = “http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/10/dev-chair-do-we-want-scientists-or-engineers/”;Good computer science graduates do not prepare good software developers. Really, I mean it. But for the polar opposite reason that these two New York University computer science professors think.

When I was in high school my physics teacher once told us, “All physics experiments work. They just may not work the way you want them to.”

This encapsulates neatly what software development is all about. On one hand, it is science. It is deterministic. Each programming language statement performs precisely as stated (baring bugs in the compiler, or the SDK, or the OS). On the other hand, software development is closer to engineering where years of experience allows a software developer to spot patterns in the model and apply them […]

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