Oscar Waddups: Hardware is something like a keyboard, monitor, webcam, a mouse, a 3.5 floppy disk.Software is the programs, like DOS, windows, Linux, Apple, applescript, stuff like that.Hope this is what you needed to know.
Shan Lanen: hardware engineering usually works on the hardware within a computer, like the chip design or board design (mother board, graphics board, etc). a software engineering usually works on the software that runs on the hardware. it could be at the operating system level, it could be on server-level products like web servers or application servers ( like tomcat or jboss http://www.developintelligence.com/catalogue/open-... ) or it could be working on application development frameworks (like spring, hibernate, or struts http://www.developintelligence.com/catalogue/open-... ). of course as a software engineer you could also build products for companies like adobe or apple or write business enabling applications for the corporate IT....Show ! more
Christopher Calcano: Software Engineering is the efficient use of the knowledge of computer science to make software systems.Hardware Engineer is the one who is basically studies working of a system based on its hardware specification.
Alexandria Popik: Hardware engineers and software engineers are basically the same cause the hardware makers use advanced software and their own knowledge to make hardware and the software makers use software to and their own knowledge to make other software and Programming. But if you want to get technical Hardware is an actual item and software is virtual. A sort of easy job is to be a hardware guy cause it isnt as hard as programming.
Dannie Briseno: Hardware has to do with the physical construction of the computer: the CPU, video card, RAM, hard drives, etc.Software is the code that the computer uses to run. Inside the hardware, certain data is included in EEPROM chips that contain data for the BIOS, etc. Other co! de such as your OS is in your hard drive, in addition to all o! ther data.In hardware engineering you mainly design the physical parts and mess with circuits, while in software engineering you write programs (which is ultimately assembled into binary data that the computer understands)...Show more
Cherlyn Tefera: I am a computer engineering student.There are two extremes: computer science and electrical engineering.Computer Science:Programming. All day long. They usually don't see natural light and eventually become allergic to it. It's programming software in languages like C/C++/Java etc.Electrical Engineering:Very minimal programming requirements. Most work is heavy-duty math and engineering. This involves circuit design/analysis, and lots of calculating.And then, there's Computer Engineering which is a mix between the two. Computer engineers take a heavy workload of computer science to get a healthy base in applications programming, but don't delve so deep into computational theory and proofs. They do a little bit of ci! rcuit analysis, but mostly to understand why the hardware components work the way they do. Mostly, they do low-level programming (assembly language/C) and hardware programming (Verilog/VHDL) which is quite different from C/C++/Java because you're programming connections and wires and stuff onto chips. The difference is that computer science (software engineers) program for computers, but computer engineers (hardware engineers) can ALSO program chips to make mini-computers (like what you'd expect in a gameboy or a car or a robot).So in sum, computer science (software engineering) is mostly sitting in front of a computer and programming. Computer and electrical engineering (hardware engineering) is a lot more problem-solving and math and thinking about the circuits underneath what you're programming.All three careers/majors are comparable in salary. I chose computer engineering because it's the best of both worlds. It is sort of bridging the gap....Show more
Teodor! o Lamond: a hardware engineer creates hardware which is like your mothe! r board and like hard disk drives and ram and stuff like that your software engineer creates stuff like programs or other things like that
Roosevelt Pendill: software deals with the programs, hardware is the actual computer. most of these pay well
Christiane Cattano: Computer Engineering is a lot like Electrical Engineering, except with a focus on digital circuits; and computer architecture; but not a whole lot of programing (relative to CS). Software Engineering is a lot like Computer Science; mostly programming; and not very much real engineering.
Elbert Donatelli: Both you work with comuters, but a software engineer will be doing a lot more writing code. Both make decent money, I would assume about the same. I wouldn't be concerened about how much money you're going to make...just make sure you enjoy what you're doing. Any engineering job will require at a minimum bachelor's degree. It sounds like you don't know what you're getting yourself into. E! arning a bachelor's degree in engineering requires a lot of high level science and math and usually 5 years. Check out http://www.discoverengineering.org/ to learn more about engineering (look into the computer engineering section). The site is designed for middle school aged kids, but it has some good info, no matter what your age is. If you're not interested in engineering, you may want to look into networking. It's related to computers and doesn't require as much school, but I think you can make a decent amount of money....Show more
Alonso Crehan: A good guess would be that a "hardware" engineer designs things like printers, scanners etc and a "software" engineer designs the programs that make them run.
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