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I'm listening to the excellent BBC podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon about the Apollo program, can you guess how many CS degrees worked on programming the Apollo Guidance Computer?

In my opinion, software is more of an art and design discipline than other types of engineering. The traditional notions of what constitutes an engineer do not apply as much to software. This is clear in the fact that we have no formal certification.




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