Self-Taught Programmer vs. Software Engineer

Are you a self taught programmer or you are thinking about learning to code? Great, but there is a difference between a self taught programmer, or even someone that did a coding bootcamp and a software engineer.
Watch the video to find out what this difference is and how you can take the step to software engineer.

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My name is Florian Leitner-Fischer and I'm a computer science professor and software engineer based in Germany. I have experience both in academia as well as in industry managing a globally distributed software engineering team. In my videos I talk about programming, software development, software engineering and computer science as well as the occasional tech / gadget review.

My mission is to help you to take the step from programmer to software engineer and to help you being a better software engineering leader.

[emiledestructeur]

Thanks a lot for this video, as a EE student, this helped me a lot relate this to PCB designing and building

[joeysoto]

I appreciate this video. I'm in the last semester of my M.S. in Software Engineering and I have the B.S. in Computer Science. Online I often want to evangelize about processes and systematic approaches to developing correct software. Most people I've discussed this to don't think they should care about it. Web Dev, Systems, or Embedded developers don't think they need it and everything is pure Agile. I see it though. I hope that one day there's more open and free literature about this for those who want to do the self-taught path.

[arielaguirre]

Coming from an Electrical Engineering background. I realized there exists a remarkable difference like this sometime ago, when I started to think about software in a professional and scalable way. Personally, I am transitioning from programmer to software engineering. Nevertheless, for people with no CS education it is a challenge to self-taught engineering skills. The ocean of resources available out there is just overwhelming and we sometimes do not know how or where to start, or how to continue. Prof., Thanks for your video. It is educational and helpful.  
I would appreciate a 2nd part that tackle some references, books or programs one could follow to learn it the right way.

[percy]

I think most people don't reach the point of being a software engineering because the time and study required is sometimes not needed as just being able to programme or make websites pays radicicolous amount of money already. The demand for "decent" self taught web dev's are getting more money than doctors nowadays. Thoughts?

[wahidurrahman]

I'm studying MSc Computer sciences at Staffordshire University in the UK. I have known personally who has no degree but can solve complex problems. He has good skills in algorithms. The passing assignment is easy because sometimes students hire thirty for their assignments. genuine skills are necessary I entirely disagree with you, you have a bios problem

[percy]

absolutely amazing analogy! I have never heard anyone articulate the difference, I doubt many people understand their is distinction!

Prof the course I'll be taking in september (BSc Computer Science) has almost same modules as the Bsc Software Engineer, their are a few different modules, but technically you could take the exact same modules and still have Computer Science as your degree title (which is seen as a more theoretical degree I believe).

My intention is to create a SAAS one day so I'm highly interested in software engineering but I'm almost convinced I'll be doing a postgrad, my question to you is what route is better both in terms of cv and also in terms of employability, to take software engineering degree or computer science? ty