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For a beginner who wants to walk down the path of programming and developing and etc. What is a brief explanation of the differences of the two?

To clarify, Computer science is CS while software or computer engineering is IT what is the simple difference between IT and CS? Thank you

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  • $\begingroup$ I think that answers to this question would be more useful if you could be explicit about why you have this question, or equivalently what the context to the question is. Are you, for example, comparing two university courses to decide which to apply for? $\endgroup$
    – Peter Taylor
    Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 15:29
  • $\begingroup$ @PeterTaylor i am willing to save my valuable time :) $\endgroup$
    – Salmush
    Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 15:57
  • $\begingroup$ In a nutshell: Computer engineers design computing machinery. Computer scientists study the possibilities of what can be accomplished by using computing machinery. $\endgroup$
    – Solomon Slow
    Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 20:55

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I think you're still slightly confused yourself, actually. All of the fields below have a great deal of overlap because they are in similar parts of the world

Computer Science: Computer Science is the broad study of computational systems, which can be a little frustrating, because people often use the term to describe some specific subset. If you major in "computer science" at a university, it is not at all clear what you will be studying after a few intro courses until you inspect the curriculum. It is perfectly possible to get a CS degree without studying almost any content from the other fields outlined below. However, all of those terms could possibly be called "computer science" depending on the context.

I (and some others) hold that Computer Science is purely the branch of mathematics that deals with computation. Some people try to keep things less ambiguous by adding the word theoretical before CS to indicate the mathematical field, but this is not always the case. (Take a look at the Computer Science Stackexchange to get a sense of what I would term "CS".)

Software Engineering: The art and science of creating good software.

Information Technology: The field concerned with the hardware and software infrastructure that manages networks and data.

Computer Engineering: a field that mixes Electrical Engineering with Software Engineering.

Mechatronics: a field that combines Computer Engineering with mechanical engineering.

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