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aidan@lemmy.world 1 month agoSoftware engineering is too wide and deep for licensing to be feasible without a degree program- which would be a massive slap in the face to the millions of skilled self taught devs.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Some states let some people get professional licensure through experience alone. It just ends up taking more than a decade of experience to meet the equivalent requirements of a four year degree.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeaaa that’s not exactly a solution
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Why not? It is still valuing the self education of people. It just means having a license to manage the system requires people with significant experience.
And it isn’t like a degree alone is required for licensure.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because a decade of professional experience is a long time, and doesn’t value independent experience. I’ve been coding for over 11 years, but professionally only a couple. Also software development is very international, how would that even be managed when working with self-taught people across continents?
I agree developers should be responsible, but licensing isn’t it, when there are 16 year olds that are better devs than master’s graduates.