IT Map

IT (Information Technology) itself is a part of global Science and Technology domain.

IT can be roughly split into 3 main parts:

[1] Theoretical/Scientific — Computer Science

• Theory of Information
• Algorithms, Theory of computation

[2] Applied Science — study and application of Computer Systems

• Hardware, IO
• Software
• OS
• Network

[3] Business/Technology/Engineering — Software Engineering

• Business researches, Lifecycle Management
• Software development, Software design, Coding/Programming
• UX/UI
• CI/CD, Deploy

Software engineering

Software Engineering constists of:

• Business research
• UX/UI
• Software development
  • Software design
  • Coding/programming
  • Testing/debugging
  • Writing docs
• Deployment, Lifecycle management

Software Engineering — the most general term that contains design/development/maintenance of software applications.

Software — collection of computer program, data and documentation that performs specific tasks.

Software Development — process of designing and implementing the software.

Software Design — conceptualizing of how software will work (describes architecture, interfaces, data, etc. of software).

Programming — creating instructions for computer for solving applied tasks.

Coding — process of creating a code for computer language.