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Re:Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Import... by BenElgar on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:53PM (#12947432)
It's certainly regulated in some places, Iceland for example, and in the UK there would often be the assumption - though probably not the legal requirement - that you'd taken a degree that has been granted accredited status by the national Engineering Council.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#Regulatory_c...

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Re:Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Import... by noir_lord on Monday November 14, 2016 @04:34AM (#12948595)
Its for the degree reason I call myself a programmer not a software engineer.

I'm better than lots of people I've met with the degree but I don't want people to infer that I have a degree from that convention.

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