Journal 46
June 24 - June 30 I cannot believe one of the last classes of the program has just begun, my goodness how time flies. I must say, before I began this course, I expected it to be just another programming class. I had never realized that there was a meaningful distinction between programming and software engineering, as I assumed the latter was just a more formal or professional way of describing the act of writing code. My interests and goals for the future are primarily rooted in data science, so I viewed software engineering as something that supported building models or applications, but I had never really considered everything that goes into creating and maintaining software beyond just writing the code. After completing this week's work (a bit earlier than it is due because I am going on vacation (yay)), my perspective on the distinction between programming and software engineering has changed quite a bit. The reading was all about the differences between the two, and made it...