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A construction worker is not an engineer. Neither is a programmer a "software engineer".
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I resent that.
What he fails to mention is that computers are the basis of many engineers job. Computers have revolutionized engineering. But it wasn't the traditonal engineers who made the software to do it. it was the programmers, the 'engineer-wanna-bes'. yes, the engineers had input, but it was the programmers who did it.
And without us programmers, FIRST would be using hobbiest remotes, none of this gyroscopicly corrected steering stuff, or PID control loops, or IR beacons.
Heck, without the software engineers, we wouldn't be sitting here writting this.