How would an employer look at the code that you personally wrote in an
opensource project (assuming the project that you contribute has many
contributors) ?

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Open source coding is a better pathway.
>
> I'm certified in another language, but I don't think it helped me as
> much as working on open source projects. Also employers/colleagues
> that I'd want to be involved with wouldn't put it high on their
> priorities. Cert. can give you theoretical depth in the language, but
> you won't get as much practice at working with an active codebase, and
> interesting OS projects give you the theory too (along with framework
> exposure).
>
> Better to contribute to an open project, or pick a problem and solve
> it.
>

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