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Speak for yourself.
I am a 'real' engineer. I have 2 Bachelor degrees: electrical engineering and computer science. The way I look at it, one is hardware related and one is software. I do much the same activities with both... I solve problems by designing and building something, using judgement, sound principles and certain measures of quality and craftsmanship. You can build something elaborate, simple, quality, junk, big, little, creative, mundane. Whatever I build has users. Sometimes I am high up in the hierarchy, sometimes on the bottom rung, and different levels of problem detail are addressed at each activity level. There are elite designers and monkeys in both. IMHO both are engineering.
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Harvey
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I think the point is not so much what we do. My guess is that what I've done is not terribly different in character that what you've done. The question is what we call it. I'm really fine with our having a semantic difference. After all, the question was "As a coder.. what do you see yourself as?" I answered it, as you point out, for myself. I'd never presume to speak for you. 
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Hmmm... That seems (to me) to be in opposition with what you originally said. You didn't seem to like the idea of being or claiming to be an engineer.
Oh well, I'm an engineer whether you like it or not!
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Harvey
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I don't see the contradiction, Brydon. The question asked how I see myself. Even if you and I do roughly the same work, I'm free to see myself as not an engineer, and you're free to see yourself however you like. Whatever makes you happy is fine with me.
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I see myself as CListCtrl. Maybe it's time to move to mobile development?
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Definitely a beginner. So much to learn, so little time.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: So much to learn, so little time.
So much to learn, so little of it sticks.
No doubt. It's due in no small part to copious amounts of extraneous bullsh*t (of framework X/methodology X)
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: So much to learn drink, so little time.
ftfy Yoda!
If your a beginner, I'm a flippin' foetus!
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Definitely a beginner. So much to learn, so little time.
Scary thought, but I think you are right...
And to think that someday I may catch up to you.
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Harvey
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I like to think of me as a Software Engineer or Solution Architect but when we arrive at an already ongoing project we will always find ourselves adding one more tube (hopefully the best one possible) to successfully lead the water (more or less dirty) somewhere, sometimes not even clear where...
On top of that, and until now, I managed to code on and for everything I needed so yeah, I'm a plumber!!
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... and also as a Creator, a Researcher and foremost a Problem Solver. I like what I do as a developer and I'm proud of it.
Cheers,
Lizandro Campbell
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It sounds very crazy. but most of the time, whenever I solve any major/critical bugs and get wowed by mates I really feel very proud. At the same time, I am more like a problem solver, That is what I think about my profession.
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I think I see myself when writing a coding is police detective......Because when I have some errors, then I need to search from error message and followed the flow of the system step by step. So, I feel like a police detective......
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Then you get to shoot a bunch of innocent bystanding code blocks?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Whether I am working in academia or the real world, anything I do in code is solving some problem, and it typically takes research to solve that problem.
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Is how I see software development. I see parallels in what I do when I look at how builders, plumbers, electricians and other tradespeople work. I don't see much of a scientific aspect to it at all because I'm not really researching into widely unknown topics. The engineering aspect is definitely there though, designing an application is the part an architect does before passing the plans over to the tradespeople who realise the designs.
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Fully agree, my +5!
I wonder who sees himself as an "Artist". Artist in the current meaning is different to the one in the 16th century - those days, it was meant more like a craftsmanship.
I met some "Artist" Software developers with the attitude of a "Prima-Donna": if you criticise or question some of their "Art", you are the dilletant who does not understand the "oevre". With that background it's a bit suspcicious to me if some developers claim to be Artists.
Just my 5 Cents. 
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These mortals - they desire again of me a boon of application.
Thus, I must also be judge and consider their worth.
Perhaps a plague of 'insects' to further harry them in their vane struggles?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: vane struggles
You enjoy watching them windmill in frustration?
(or were you looking for vain[^]?)
Software Zen: delete this;
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Answer  :-
A Software Engineer or Computer Scientist or Coder is an Artist who crafts, plumbs, and puzzle out the hunting process in order to outperform the coding work as compared to a code cranking machine; and obviously, is not just a normal developer who works only for the bills.
My Reading-o-Meter
Previous -> Read "CLR via C#" by Jeffrey Richter.
Current -> Exploring WCF thru Apress' "Pro WCF" by Chris Peiris and Dennis Mulder.
Next -> Need to read "The Art of Computer Programming" by Donald E. Knuth.
My blog - My recent article
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What is your contribution.... Adding or Creating...
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I would say, Value Adder!!!
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If the initial solution add no value at all he could actually be the "Creator"! 
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"Engineer - Due to B.Tech, I'm called here so.
Artist - Coding and UI design is an art
Craftsman - Art requires skillful crafting
Plumber - I have to wire up the view to viewmodel.
Hunter - I hunt down bugs
Code cranking machine - What will you say to someone who is mostly before the computer typing out some random code
in some random language and seeing what that does!
Just a developer - Thats what I'm called. And it pays the bills!"
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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