In which I discuss the thorny issue of whether software engineering should be a licensed profession, mostly from the perspective of the ACM’s argument against it. Also considered is how, or even if, the whole Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBoK) could be examined in a single sitting, and whether an incremental approach like the Software Engineering Institute’s CMMI would work, or even be adopted.
OOP the Easy Way
Object-Oriented Programming the Easy Way: a manifesto for reclaiming OOP from three decades of confusion and needless complexity.APPropriate Behaviour
APPosite Concerns
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