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[SidewalkCynic]

Thanks,

Basically, what I am trying to determine is if I can classify engineering and computer programming as having the commonality of algorithms involved in the initiation of a task/project exercising either of the activities.

My problem being that I understand algorithms as being the abstract concept that the initiator of a project requests engineers or programmers to detail. For instance, a manager asks a programmer to write a program to "do (something);" I thought "do (something)" was the algorithm, and the programmer writes the steps that the processor can calculate.

So, I am probably looking for the term that describes the general classification of expectations of what a tool can be directed to do.