In the USA, doctors must take the Hippocratic Oath, acknowledging their understanding of their power.
As technically engulfs the world around us and our lives become increasingly dependent on it, we feel that it is important for software engineers to also understand their place in it all.
Developer ethics is an important topic that we need to study more and understand and more universities are introducing it into their curriculum as well.
One of the most famous programming ethics examples is the self-driving car dilemma—if a crash is about to happen, do you program the car to save the occupants inside the car? Or hit someone outside of the car who is in the way?
There are less extreme examples, of course, like catching unintentional discrimination or situations where privacy laws are being broken. You can read more about technology ethics in the links at the end of this post.
As software engineers, we should be mindful of our knowledge and power and use our skills to promote good. We want your three months at Code Chrysalis to be full of curiosity and action on how you can make the world a better place. This is why we would like you go read the Programmer's Oath and always keep in mind how your work can impact others.
The below is a programmer's oath, taken directly from Nick Johnstone's "Programmer's Oath". (And of course, it's on Github and you can create a pull request if you want to contribute.)
As a programmer, I swear to fulfill these tenets:
Interested in developer ethics? Here are some good blog posts:
This is required reading for the Code Chrysalis Immersive Bootcamp’s precourse — a series of assignments, projects, assessments, and work that all students must successfully complete remotely before embarking on our full-stack software engineering course.
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年齢・言語・現在のキャリア・技術的なバックグラウンドは日本での就職活動にどう影響しますか?同じ業界内での中途採用もそうですが、未経験業界への転職はより難しく感じるものです。就職先がどこであれ、転職が成功するためにはいくつかの要素があります。
今回は、コードクリサリスの企業向け研修プログラムを導入していただいたNRI DX生産革新本部 本部長 大元様にお話をお伺いしました。 企業向け研修プログラム導入の経緯や受講後の社員様の変化についてお聞きしました。