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Hi Arun,
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Hello,
It Is clear that you are in typical Shakespearen dilemma. You have obtained very good marks in class 12th. These marks will get you admission in any college in any branch in the country. But, which branch to take is the dilemma that many students like you are facing. All these days the typical branches or the streams that were chosen by the students were medical or engineering. However Engineering has reached saturation mark and for medical it's quite tough to get it. I would advise you to ponder, wait, meditate, discuss with your parents and have a look as to which subject or which stream you like the most or which one you fascinate the most. It's high time you selected the right path which you like and not the ones which are being chosen by many other students simply because these are chosen by others. Best wishes to you.

Computer programmers create software. Systems are constructed by software engineers. As far as I can tell, that's the main difference. It's one thing to create a software that really does anything. It's another thing entirely to design a software that works and can interact with a wide variety of other programs. And it's an entirely different thing to write a programme that can work with many other programs, run many instances of these programs simultaneously so you can handle massive transaction volumes, and then figure out how to keep the whole thing running when one or more of the programs is failing, especially since a failure in one programme usually results in the effects of the failure cascading through. Scalability, error detection and correction, fault tolerance, analysis of failure, monitoring, tuning, alerting, privacy protection, and the management of scarce resources are all part of software engineering. Most programmers won't encounter issues like that. And that's how people become software engineers in the first place: because they have to.