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> I'm not sure I'd want to work for someone who didn't understand the difference between computer science and programming.

It's not a misunderstanding. You just can't get a degree in programming. 90% [1] of students in CS departments are there to be industry coders.

[1] True bogus fact.

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In Canada at least, you can get a degree in Software Engineering which is aims to teach you the skills you'll need to develop software (not just programming though).

In most European countries too. You can get a Computer Engineering degree, equivalent to an US MSc in Engineering, with a Software, Hardware, Networking or some other topic focus. Mine was Telecommunications :)

These degrees are a mix of various proportions of traditional Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and software craft, depending upon your focus.

Computer Engineering and Software Engineering are two completely different things. SE is "testing, version control, design patterns", but CE is electrical engineering with a few programming classes. (I was a CE major.)

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