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Re:Just Say No by meej on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:23PM (#14221307)
For those of us who got degrees in college with the word "Engineering" in the name, there's also the Order of the Engineer, which is entirely about professional responsibility and ethics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer

In Canada it's known as the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_En...

This is something of a tangent, but I have started to wonder if the push to teach "everyone" to learn to code has resulted in a growing population of software developers who are not acquainted with professional ethics. Does anyone know, does the typical coding bootcamp or hacker school curriculum cover ethics? IIRC, ethics education is part of the accreditation requirements for both computer science and computer engineering programs.

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Re:Just Say No by HarryHirsch on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:25PM (#14223182)
The Engineers Order was established after a very public bridge failure with loss of life, where engineers signed off plans that should never have been approved.

Things got better, in the Western world bridge and building collapses are rare. But software on the other hand - data breaches are a common occurrence, and those who signed off on the weak security are never held accountable.

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