From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T10:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: looking for some feedback about Certification

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Patrick Hurley wrote:
> 
>> On 11/10/06, Gustav Paul <gustav@rails.co.za> wrote:
>>
>>> pat eyler wrote:
>>> >  1) Is Ruby ready for/in need of a certification program?
>>
>>
>> With the growing size of the Ruby community (and demand for Ruby
>> programmers) there will undoubtedly be programs of this sort. Of
>> course having said that, I personally consider certifications programs
>> (especially for programming languages) one of the worst hiring metrics
>> available. If you want to find a good programmer, looking for a
>> language specific certificate is a terrible mistake.
> 
> 
> What about assigning each student to make contributions to ruby and to 
> the community, so that they have something concrete and visible to point 
> to? For example:
> 
> - write std lib docs

Hey, what a great idea!
> 
> - write tests for std libs


This, too.



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