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Some software developers are self taught and do fine. The problem might be that you are referring to it as a "profession." It is for some, but for others it is
by robbrown451 5y ago
Some software developers are self taught and do fine. The problem might be that you are referring to it as a "profession." It is for some, but for others it is something they might do more casually, and that should be ok.
Would you agree that a teenager should be able to build a widget for a local business's web site for money? Or should a license be required to do that? Should that same teenager have to get a license to baby sit or mow lawns? Presumably you don't think of baby sitting or lawn mowing as professions, so that's the difference.
Maybe a license should be required to call themselves a "software engineer." But beyond that, I think this article views things in way too black and white terms.
- Lascaille 5y agoThere's always people who push to regularise and gatekeep the profession, and while they claim to have noble aims it's often simply because they're better at bureaucracy (and surrounding themselves with it for protection) than simply producing viable code. I always view these pushes with a lot of suspicion given the nature of the people that tend to promote them.