Perl Programming Certificate
Looks like O'Reilly is offering certifications certificates for Perl programming. This is huge, I think they are the first entity to offer something like this.
http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/perl-programming.php
I blog about Perl.
Hi Phred
This has been tried years if not decades ago, and not just by Microsoft/Oracle/etc/etc.
The problem is: Is the hidden agenda to emotionally blackmail companies into thinking they can only trust Perl/X/Y/Z programmers if they (the latter) have a certain piece of paper from a certain organization?
Hint: I suspect the correct answer is "Yes" :-(.
Cheers
Ron
The certificate problem will always be an issue.
Good to see Perl included in that list, though.
I doubt that there is a nefarious plan at work there as you suggest. This is the first comprehensive Perl course(s) I've seen. To date it looked like the only options were tutorials at conferences or in house professional development like Stonehenge does (I may have missed other options).
If I was hiring someone without a CPAN id or many years experience with Perl I would much rather see that they made some attempts to educate themselves in addition to autodidaction.
See also: https://blogs.perl.org/users/randal_l_schwartz/2010/11/perl-certification---still-snake-oil.html
This is not a Perl Programming Certification. This is a certification that you took the class: "Completion of the 4-course series earns students a Certificate of Professional Development from the University of Illinois. All courses are certified by the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science, and students receive Continuing Education Credits upon completion of each course in the series."
Sorry for the mistype of certification vs. certificate in the body of my post, fixed. I wasn't completely clear on the difference between the two at the time and used certificate as a verb in the form certification.
I tried to find a clear explanation on the difference between certificate vs. certification and this breakdown here seems to be recycled on a number of websites - http://www.aalnc.org/lncc/about/certificate.cfm
So this isn't really a certification that one took the class since that implies a certification process, but instead a receipt that one completed the class. Which I think in itself is still quite valuable for non Perl experts, I wish there was something like this when I started learning Perl. But I have an understanding of the certificate vs. certification nuances here have been subject of several discussions.
No, but the danger of unintended consequences of that sort is real.
To be a cynic here for a moment, in times of famine I guess you diversify…
Read through that whole post of Randal's. I think for my purposes a Perl cert from OST is a "good" thing as it helps *me*.
You missed the other fix. It's not O'Reilly offering the certificates. It's the University of Illinois that offers them.
And, none of this is new. They've been doing it for years.
I know. :)
nevertheless this is the first time I heard of it. I might try my hand at the advanced or applied. its always good to brush up things, gives you a perspective on what you've learned since the last time you picked up the book. ;)