Re:Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond paro...
by 908B64B197 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:25PM
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> If that's gatekeeping, then so be it. They are not engineers yet if they can't use the software equivalent of a ruler.
It's not gatekeeping.
Traditional engineering fields have somewhat standardized expectations around what a new grad should know. Same as law or Medicine/Nursing. When someone calls himself a Software Engineer, I too have an expectation of what they should know.
It's part of what made the scene where Katherine Johnson explains Euler's method as a little known math trick to a group of bewildered NASA engineers so funny. Everyone in that room would have been familiar with that concept as it's the first numerical method encountered in a differential equation class [0].
I would love some sort of standardized curriculum for Software Engineering. No exam, just a list of pre-requisite and concepts.
[0] The real work she did would have probably required a separate two hour documentary so I understand the filmmaker's decision here.
It's not gatekeeping.
Traditional engineering fields have somewhat standardized expectations around what a new grad should know. Same as law or Medicine/Nursing. When someone calls himself a Software Engineer, I too have an expectation of what they should know.
It's part of what made the scene where Katherine Johnson explains Euler's method as a little known math trick to a group of bewildered NASA engineers so funny. Everyone in that room would have been familiar with that concept as it's the first numerical method encountered in a differential equation class [0].
I would love some sort of standardized curriculum for Software Engineering. No exam, just a list of pre-requisite and concepts.
[0] The real work she did would have probably required a separate two hour documentary so I understand the filmmaker's decision here.