On Thursday 10 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I disagree. People need the tutorial and a good three years behind > the keyboard. Thinking that instructional material is not a good idea > is like thinking that a doctor shouldn't bother studying, rather he > should just start operating on people. > When I was very young, my brother tried to teach me to ride a bike. > He said all you have to do is peddle, but I kept falling. My step > father at the time saw that I was frustrated and told me that, "If > you start to fall to one side, lean the other way a little bit". That > bit of advice was all I needed, I then understood the need for > balance and almost immediately I could ride my bike without falling. > We learn from both studying and doing. For those of you that have > experience learning foreign languages, you know exactly what I mean. > When I took Japanese, having Japanese people to talk to really helped > more than anything else, but I never would have learned to read and > write without study materials.
You make valid points, but I'm looking at this from a different angle. It is LPIC-3 we are talking about here, not LPIC-1 or even LPIC-2. To continue with your "training a doctor" analogy, LPIC-3 is more like the final certification step for a surgeon. He has already passed medical school with it's concentrated indoctrination programmes, he has already been taught, tested on and passed the basics of medical operations. The candidate wants to be certified at a much higher level than that. Learning to lean a bike, learning the basics of Japanese words and the subtle nuances of the pronunciation and the written forms of the words is LPIC-1 and to some degree LPIC-2 stuff. LPIC-3 is along the lines of proving consistently that you can do a sub-2:03 lap around Kyalami track on a Ducati 1098, or pen a haiku that your audience approves of. I wouldn't know where to start with a tutorial for an examination at that level. It's a reasonable assumption that an LPIC-3 candidate for an exam on LDAP has already read all the related man pages and quite a few books. I would also expect that such an exam asks questions that are not in books in bullet form. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
