What are actually the major differences as they overlap alot?
Which degree are perceived better to employers? Thinking of dev/swe roles.
In: Engineering
The degrees are about 75% the same thing, which is focusing on how to design, code, debug, test.
For software engineering, the remaining 25% are specific areas of coding: you’ll learn AI, Cloud computing, mobile apps.
For computer science, the remaining 25% are not directly related to coding, but are tangentially related: you’ll learn how Operating Systems work (especially Linux), hardware interactions, networking protocols, and databases.
If I were an employer, if I were looking for a full-stack dev I might prefer computer science, and I might prefer the software engineer if I didn’t need full-stack. But the difference is small.
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