>It always strikes me as odd that someone can go through a 4 week bootcamp and call themselves a software engineer Why? If four weeks is enough for somebody to

>It always strikes me as odd that someone can go through a 4 week bootcamp and call themselves a software engineer Why? If four weeks is enough for somebody to learn enough that they can build Joe the Plumber a slightly nicer-looking website that he's happy with, what's wrong with that? A lot of excellent software engineers have zero days of formal software education. Even Donald Knuth doesn't have a software engineering degree; he has physics and maths degrees. Should Donald Knuth be forbidden from developing software because he doesn't have a piece of paper saying "software engineering degree"?