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Distinction Between Programming and Software Engineering

"Programming" differs from "software engineering" in dimensionality: programming is about producing code. Software engineering extends that to include the maintenance of that code for its useful life span.

Programming is certainly a significant part of software engineering.

With this distinction, we might need to delineate between programming tasks (development) and software engineering tasks (development, modification, maintenance). The addition of time adds an important new dimension to programming. Software engineering isn't programming.

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