We need to go far beyond that -- we need an actual profession. It always strikes me as odd that someone can go through a 4 week bootcamp and call themselves a software engineer. Robert Martin has been advocating this for point for years -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vTLSkXTOo
>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"?
