From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T12:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: looking for some feedback about Certification

On 11/10/06, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>
> >
> > I think it's fine for the institution to offer a certificate in Ruby
> > programming, but I don't think it has any implications for Ruby per
> > se.  In other words, I would not call people who take the course
> > certified Rubyists, but rather holders of a certificate in Ruby from
> > such-and-such an institution.
>
>
> Jamis' comment on Pat's blog, though, hit the nail on the head in
> pointing out that anything called a "certificate" will carry linguistic
> and work-culture baggage.

Except that a certificate is also a well-known and frequently used
term that's used as David uses it above:

http://flightline.highline.edu/cg/network.html#unix

for example


>
> I really like the idea of a school offering a formal path of Ruby study,
> and I suppose that, at the end, you would get something that indicates
> success or failure by the standards of the course.  You know, a certificate.
>
> Overall, there are worse problems to have than people abusing the notion
> of Ruby certification.  You'd think more people had seen The Wizard of
> Oz, though.
>
>
> --
> James Britt
>
>
>


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thanks,
-pate
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