Why Should You Study Software Engineering

Can you imagine a world without computers? A world where you still have to write with pen everything or at least do it with a hard typewriter? It’s easy to imagine, but it is not delectable.Computers have helped the human being since the beginning of its invention. Even when Alan Turin (a mathematician) invented the Turing Machine —the machine which is the base of all modern hardware andsoftware— it was very helpful for the British Army to unravel the Nazi´s Codes that would be deciphered only by Enigma, the machine that Hitler’s army used to decode their own encrypted codes. And it wasvery helpful because before the Turing Machine people had to figure out what these codes were about by themselves and sometimes nobody could get it. And where is Software Engineering in all this?Software Engineering is the best answer to improve those computers that have been very helpful and will be even more helpful with such improvements as quantum computers.
And to be able to understand whatSoftware Engineering is about, we must comprehend what is engineering and software about. Well, actually engineers use the theories of physics to invent or improve the machines of the present. Andsoftware is related to computers, specifically to computer language and it´s like the opposite of hardware, the physical part in a computer. So software is about the program and applications we use incomputers, cell phones, tablets and the most of electronics. In addition we can state that software engineering is the application, design, development, maintenance and improvement of computer language orinstructions given to a computer to do something like programs. An example of software engineering application is this essay. This essay was printed by an electronic printer, which needed a drivermade by software engineers to make the computer could enjoin the printer to print this essay which was written in a program made by another group of engineers to make an operative system, like...