Computer engineers go by a number of different stage names: they are software developers, programmers, coders, hackers.
Computer engineering is an umbrella term, although it's usually implied that they have an above-average understanding of hardware. It's not a synonym for programmer.
Marc's mind was a symphony of brackets, tags, semi-colons and logic operators. To me, it was just noise.
Yet at the end she mentioned him specifically writing in Ruby (Rails) and Common Lisp.
Otherwise, it was a decent sentimental story. I'm not particularly a fan of emotionally manipulative glurge and I can't help but smirk at the whole "learn to code = write markup" equivocation and the general try-hard tone, but it was okay. I can see it being motivating.
> Computer engineering is an umbrella term, although it's usually implied that they have an above-average understanding of hardware. It's not a synonym for programmer.
I've given up on explaining that to most people. My degrees are CS and Math. I work in a software shop. There is hardware work being done, but mostly of the "did we hook up the right cables?" sort of work. However, whenever I start explaining that it's not engineering in the sense that they mean (which really is the computer/electrical engineer sense) they start thinking I'm in IT.
I'm not really sure what "tags" refers to, but I'm pretty sure you can write fairly acceptable Ruby and Lisp without brackets, semicolons, or logic operators. That's not to say you can't use them; just that you don't actually have to.
So what I'm hearing is that she's actually talking about C.
If he's using CL and RoR, he's probably using a bunch of other stuff too. Anyway, writing markup has a similar write-test-debug cadence to writing code.
Computer engineering is an umbrella term, although it's usually implied that they have an above-average understanding of hardware. It's not a synonym for programmer.
Marc's mind was a symphony of brackets, tags, semi-colons and logic operators. To me, it was just noise.
Yet at the end she mentioned him specifically writing in Ruby (Rails) and Common Lisp.
Otherwise, it was a decent sentimental story. I'm not particularly a fan of emotionally manipulative glurge and I can't help but smirk at the whole "learn to code = write markup" equivocation and the general try-hard tone, but it was okay. I can see it being motivating.