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From: toolsmit@dec254.uucp (Toolsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Accepted Practice #2
Keywords: programming, training, craft
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.150953.28255@dec254.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 91 15:09:53 GMT
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Organization: Cincinnati-Milacron, Inc.
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It occurs to me that in other engineering disciplines, the accepted practices
of the engineer yield a description of a product (design?).  This description
is then converted into a product by one or more crafts or trades.

It seems that the crafts and trades also have a means to verify competence
with their accepted practices, viz. the machinist apprenticeship that leads
to a journeyman's card.

Does this imply that coding is really a craft and that a degree in computer
science might be overkill as a credential?  Should we look at programmer
training in the same way as electronics technician training?

Hmmm...

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