Floreth's Blog 2016-08-22 21:35:00

History of software engineering
  1. It first started in the 1950's when software separated from hardware.
  2. They started to reclute programmers that where working as hardware engineers.
  3. Software engineering was encouraged by the software crisis of the (1960's, 1970's and 1980's) which was a term used to describe the hard time programmers has when writing useful and efficient computer programs in time.
  4. the 1990's gave rise to the Internet and to a fast growth in the demand for e-mail systems on the World Wide Web. There also was a growth on browser usage that ran on HTML, changing the way information displayed/ retrieval was organized.
  5. 2000's rapid growth in the demand for inexpensive software solutions led to the expansion of faster and lighter methodologies that developed running software, such as Extreme Programming.
  6. Software engineering today is currently rated as the best job in America by Money Magazine.

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