THE VIDEO SHELF · software engineering as engineering
Glenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline
Glenn Vanderburg argues at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference that software development is an engineering discipline, even if immature. He contends the discredited body of knowledge called software engineering has led people to wrongly reject the label.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended in debates over whether software is real engineering, as a well-argued case that building is cheap relative to simulating.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- O'Reilly
- Topic
- software engineering as engineering
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2018
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Careful. Software engineering is very much a real engineering discipline, and it is a major cultural failing to not recognize it as such. Required viewing: [VIDEO]
jdiaz5513 on Hacker News · 2018-01
In Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical InterviewI don't have a particular dog in this fight, but I thought this is interesting: The last O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference had a talk by Glenn Vanderburg titled "why software development is an engineering discipline": [VIDEO] I think the author of the blogpost does a …
rb2k_ on Hacker News · 2015-06
In Why Software Engineering Isn’t Engineering
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