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My CS dept liked to say "We don't teach programming".

I thing it was Niklaus Wirth (Turing award winner, inventor of Pascal/Modula/LoLa/Oberon, and general CS hero) who once said something like "I am a programmer who is a professor, and a professor who is a programmer."

Having a programmer's knowledge is very valuable for CS. But CS is not about programming, it's about the fundamental mathematical structures that underlie computation.

CS and SWE are definitely related but distinct. Knowing both is best, but knowing one well and having a very cursory and elementary knowledge of the other is perfectly fine and useful.

It's like studying the Maxwell's theory does not make you a qualified electrician, nor even requires you to already be one.

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