Ugh. It's called engineering because in the beginning each university built or bought one computer. That machine was either owned by the mathematics department or the electrical engineering department (for hopefully obvious reasons). Fast forward a few decades and we have the twin disciplines of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
I would argue that they are substantially different in definition, but blurred together in practice.
Computer Science is a science. It is not focused on building things; rather on learning things.
The "dot com boom" and subsequent 25 years had such an employment need that everything turned into "programming means FAANG means I am rich"
Business Data Processing and Management Information Systems is more applicable to a majority of the 'software engineers' today.
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Computer Science is a science. It is not focused on building things; rather on learning things.
The "dot com boom" and subsequent 25 years had such an employment need that everything turned into "programming means FAANG means I am rich"
Business Data Processing and Management Information Systems is more applicable to a majority of the 'software engineers' today.