[twblalock]

I never said anyone should skip the fundamentals. But you don't need to go to college to learn them.

Your nitpick on the difference between engineering and programming is ridiculous, and your definition of engineering is wrong.

[badminton1]

In the information age, given the right questions, you might eventually get the right answers. But you need to be able to formulate the right questions first.

If you do not possess a strong problem solving approach, you might not be able to formulate those questions in the first place.

Then, corporate interest aside, there are definitions of software engineering that are very clear. Refer to the IEEE definition of software engineer for instance, it might be more aligned to mine than to the "I feel like an engineer today" idea you are trying to push.