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Discussion on: Skills to Become A Software Engineer

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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

An Engineer oversees the system as whole using engineering principles, whilst a developer focuses on creating functional software.

You can act as engineer without the engineering of course, the required skills would be those that permits you to understand the whole system such linear algebra, computation, OSs, compilers, software engineering and so. Depending on the environment you are working on, it will relate to some group of subjects or another.