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Originally Posted by Vorph Most? There is no such thing as a Software Engineer, period. Sciences don't have PE exams and programmers aren't licensed, so we aren't engineers. I don't particularily care for the title and have requested it changed at a job before, and actual engineers I know really hate the title (along with the 'network engineer' version which is even more of a slap in the face to them). |
I wasn't using the PE as a basis for the title since, as you said, it's not available for Engineers based in Software. I will use, however, a degree based on engineering as opposed to liberal arts, math, or straight up computer science. One that carries accreditation from ABET, for example, which give accreditation for engineering colleges and programs. Based on that criteria there are indeed a few programs that study both the archetecture and archetectural process of engineering a software system, much in the same way that a MechE or CivE has to when they are designing.
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Originally Posted by Vorph I think what you're saying is that most programmers just know the language(s), and not the methodologies that should be used to design the software in the first place... in which case I'd agree. As it applies to the LFG tool that Lyenae mentioned, the difficult part would be making it work well enough that people don't bitch endlessly about how soandso's group picked someone else over them because the LFG tool told them to. Given the retardation on mmo forums, and how people just plain love to bitch about anything, I'm sure it's a no-brainer decision to keep the tools simple enough that when someone doesn't get chosen for a group the blame rests on another player and not the company. |
Agreed, there is no accounting for the IQ loss of posting on a forum. And from he perspective of what is available, there are decent LFG tools out there, but none that would be better than an average grade at best. That doesn't, however, mean no one could as I believe they can. And in some cases, that "decent" tool is 100x better than the available tool from the MMO devs. For example, CallToArms is missing a lot of useful functionality, however, it's by far better than "/join LookingForGroup" or the meeting stones. Those are just lame.
