>The opposition to certification and professional organization is truly bizarre. It would likely do much more good than harm to the profession of software engin

>The opposition to certification and professional organization is truly bizarre. It would likely do much more good than harm to the profession of software engineering, yet that furious opposition always ensues whenever you bring it up. Most likely it is because a great many programmers without a formal college education or with a non-CS college education think that certification might be used to demote them to second-class citizens. And, without commenting on the rightness or wrongness of it, they wouldn't necessarily be incorrect about that either; such an exam would most likely have a strong focus on CS topics.