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I know that a computer scientist do programming, and I'm going to study computer science (or game development....or server administration...or...LOL) - but I don't know what a computer engineer does!

My brother is studying computer engineering, I ask him what is the difference between computer science and computer engineering? he doesn't know!!

He decided to study computer engineering because he loves computers and he chose computer engineering because of the word engineer.

Because, where I live, (in Lebanon) the engineer is superman, above other people, but I know that's not true, Because

1-A computer scientist Like my cousin, can become a software engineer so he'll become a superman too! :D

2-A computer engineer can't study a weird powerful programming language that we don't know about.

So what is the difference between the two?

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As far as I've seen, computer science is software (applications, operating systems, etc.) and computer engineering is hardware (CPUs, circuit boards, etc.). Computer science is what I did.

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