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Are we really architects?

Nowadays there are many words in our life. We use some words in Spanish to define something, we use others in English to define others and some other time we use specific words in the case where we cannot define, such as Wanderlust, toska, jays, among others. We are getting more knowledge from other languages, but we are forgetting that in many of them, there are words that we use that have got many meanings, and we even forget those. 

In this case, the lecture is about how we, as people who study Computer Science, forget that theoretically, we need to have the knowledge of a software architect, in comparison with the people who just study a programming language in Udemy. As students, we should consider that all classes are important and that even those that we consider as "something we need to graduate".  

According to the reading, there are many definitions that we can get from  "architect" and we mainly recognize it in another area. We use it in the case that we want to prove that we know something or that we are right, but sometimes it is not the case.  In this case, the reader should question themselves if they are really giving something extra to the development of computer software or they are just "working", or "solving the problem".  

I know that we cannot see the development of software in a tangible way, but even though we cannot see it, we should create it un the right way.  We should have the critical thought to develop software,  to develop something that someone will use, destroy and take care of it.  Also, we should understand that we should not know everything and as a team of developers,  we should have a multidisciplinary team that understands everything that we use.

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