WHAT IS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING?

SOFTWARE, ENGINEERING, AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Based on my research, Software is instruction, data, or programs that tell a computer what to do. While we know that hardware is the tangible or variable part of the computer, software is the intangible or variable part of a computer. It's basically the opposite of hardware which is the physical components of the computer. Software has two types, system software, and application software. 

Engineering on the other hand is the application of science and math to solve problems and also to change, modify, and improve the physical world around us so that humans can have a better life. While traditionally associated with physical systems like buildings, machines, and infrastructure, engineering principles are also applied in non-physical domains, among those domains is Software Engineering. 

Software engineering is a process and a branch of computer science.  It is a process because it is developing, testing, and deploying computer applications to help solve problems in our world by following the principles of engineering. Its like Software engineering is a process of developing an intangible solution to handle something intangible. Two of the example of intangible solution developed by software engineer is applications and programs, and that is something intangible. And these application and programs is used to handle intangible objects like data. But applications and programs are also used to create something tangible. Example of that is robotics and 3D printing.