Terms

Domains:

• Informatics — global term uniting theoretical and applied sided of computer science. Informatics is part of global Science and Technology domain.
• Informational Technology (IT) — applied side of Informatics (Hardware, Software, Networks)

Coding:

• Software — collection of computer program, data and documentation that performs specific tasks.
• Programming — creating instructions for computer for solving applied tasks.
• Coding — process of creating a code for computer language.

Business:

• Software Engineering — the most general term that contains design/development/maintenance of software applications.
• Software Development — process of designing and implementing the software.
• Software Design — conceptualizing of how software will work (describes architecture, interfaces, data, etc. of software).

Map of Informatics

Branches of modern Informatics:

• Theoretical Computer Science — theory of information, theory of computation
• System Programming — CPU, PC Architecture, OS, digital circuits, embedded
• Software Development
  • Programming — algorithms, datastructures, languages, patterns/principles
  • Software Architecture — layered, onion, ports and adapters, etc.
  • Software Architecture at Scale (AKA Systems Design)
• Network — hardware (ethernet/wifi), protocols (TCP/IP, tor), browsers/HTML/webdev, blockchain
• Cyber Security — from hardware/software/network/business angles
• DevOps (~ Systems Design)
  • SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) — reliability, scalability, automation, recovery
  • Platform — IDP (Internal Developer Portals), DX, CI/CD, infrastructure abstraction
  • Infrastructure — clouds, DBs
• Software Engineering as a business and a branch of global Engineering
  • Software Design — business research, UX/UI
  • Software Development — coding, testing, writing docs
  • Lifecycle management, Deploying