44: Professionalism - Richard Buckland UNSW

Professionalism and computing. Most students in this course are going to be professionals - but what does that mean? What is a professional? How does it differ from being a non-professional?

Why Microsoft is not evil. Professionalism and engineering. Arthur Andersen and Enron. NASA and the Challenger (1986) and the remarkable Richard Feynman, again. NASA (again) and the Columbia (2003). The Therac-25. Public perception of ethics of various professions (Australian data, Ray Morgan)

Wise advice for professionals who manage projects: One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers by Jerry Madden.

Ethics revised. Groundhog day.

What is it to be a master programmer? Solving the right problem. Henri Cartier Bresson. Ansell Adams is a geek.

This is our last (non-examinable) extension lecture. Just for fun. Wrapping up lots of loose threads.

What do nationalism and national anthems have to do with being a good programmer?
Question everything. Being a scholar.

Also, Dane manages to barter his way home, and Theo and Jean-Paul solve the national anthem challenge.

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[Abzville]

this guy is the awesome

[iMurph01]

The audio was better in all lectures before 43. Richard just doesn't put on his microphone! Do you know when exactly this year's videos wil come out?

[mryellow123]

@HitfulVids IIS sucks balls. It isn't even a real functioning webserver after all these years of dev.

[HitfulVids]

@mryellow123 Yes it is ironic that many of the acclaimed W3C standards are copied from (and intentionally incompatible with) features that Microsoft invented, IIS/ASP.NET is much faster and generally more secure than, say, Apache/PHP or Ruby on Rails, Linux is still a pain in the ass compared to Windows, and Apple is a bigger, more domineering monopoly than Microsoft ever was. But Microsoft is evil teeheehee *snort*.

[mryellow123]

Funny hearing all the anti-MS laughs, talk about groupthink!

Java undermined itself by being crap.

Do you enjoy the internet being popular?

Win95 with free internet (MSN) for the first year took it from being something geeks played with on 9600 baud modems to something everyone in Australia got involved in.

Rag on them all you like. They've pushed the market so far over the years, enjoy the benefits, while bitchin bout how "evil" they are.

[0121ryanh117]

I wish i lived in Austrailer. They dont do course in C here.

[iMurph01]

In the next lecture amd in the following (I think) the audio is fine again. :)

But does anyone know when the 2009 videos will be released? Will they be released at all?

[fum2006]

Wish the audio were better - maybe, if they post this year's video it will be better

[frvfilms]

some foo arives in scooter ,  2:00

[akurogane]

I like the definition of professionalism that appears early in this video, but if this is career advice for students I think it should be pointed out that you can lose your job for being a profession-respecting professional.

"How to remain employed whilst respecting your profession in spite of your manager's/client's wishes" would be a great replacement for 30mins of the content in this day's lecture.