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brodas in the IT industry n d gurus,help a broda out.what is the difference between software engineering and programming.are the two the same or similar.

programming is a subset of software engineering and as the name entails, there is actual engineering involved, per defined processes (as in it looks at the overall software development cycle and the part that each person has to play).

In a nutshell, other than that, nothing.

. . .in addition to yawa's post and in my own opinion based on area of study, programming is what is used to achieve the "Coding" phase in the software development life cycle (SDLC) which forms the basis for Software Engineering.

The complete cycle is:

Planning >>>>> Feasibility analysis and requirement gathering >>>> Design >>>> Coding >>>> Maintenance and Testing