From: Dmitry Buzdin <buzdin@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T17:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Black Belt

Thanks Steven!

I have checked and corrected everything.

As to the purpose of the exams - it will be  definetly not for the
splitting Ruby people by certified and uncertified. Like I said it is
for educational purposes and for fun :)

The Ruby has not so many documentation (especialy for libs) and
sometimes You just don't know that there is a more attractive and DRY
way to do things. Taking exams is a way to compare your knowledge to
the knowledge of other people who created and approved the questions
and a different way to learn. I can at least say that it works for me
when I have taken Java exams.

As for fears that it will be an exam only covering syntax, I could say
that it is called "Ruby Basic" for reason. The next step will be to
create next levels, like exams for specific libraries, Rails, design
style, OO patterns or something else. If you have some ideas please
share.

It will be possible to add your questions and evaulate existing ones in
the closest time. At the beginning Ruby exams will be mixed with all
the Java stuff. But if there will be interest shown, it will be posible
to divide all Ruby exams from Java and create a separate assesment
platform.

Dmitry