transmothra (
transmothra) wrote2006-05-21 05:23 am
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Updating a Portfolio: An Inquiry Into Ethics and Employability
Let's say you have a web portfolio of some web sites that you built.
And let's say you've found a few errors that you didn't catch in 2002.
Maybe even throw in a little obsolete code, which wasn't actually obsolete at the time.
...Is is ethical to clean it up? Is it ethical to present something that, for all intents and purposes, looks and functions almost exactly the same as it did back then, yet has been tweaked to fix small errors?
In other words: is it okay for me to fix my mistakes?
And let's say you've found a few errors that you didn't catch in 2002.
Maybe even throw in a little obsolete code, which wasn't actually obsolete at the time.
...Is is ethical to clean it up? Is it ethical to present something that, for all intents and purposes, looks and functions almost exactly the same as it did back then, yet has been tweaked to fix small errors?
In other words: is it okay for me to fix my mistakes?
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Besides, they're hiring the 2006 you, not the 2002 you.
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If you are using it to represent what you did in 2002, I wouldn't go as far as to change it so much that you are using the most up to date stuff (rather than 2002), but if it's not date-representative, do what you want. :D
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