By Kevin Juhasz for Hack Reactor
Engineering has been around for centuries. Software made its debut in 1948 and wasn’t widely called that until 1952. It would be a decade later when the discipline of software engineering was given its name and its due as a form of engineering on the same level as others. For the last 50 years, software engineering has had an interesting trip and become a vital part of shaping and maintaining the world.
1960s
The 1960s were a time when software engineering was accepted as its own form of engineering but was also a time of trouble for the development of software. The software side struggled to keep pace with the hardware and created problems for the field.
1963/1964 – While developing the guidance and navigations systems for the Apollo missions, computer scientist and systems engineer Margaret Hamilton coins the term “software engineering.” Hamilton felt that software developers earned the right to be called engineers.
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The way it began....