On 22/02/2010, at 3:35 PM, Mike Bailey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to be less polite than others: I think certification is completely > useless. > > —ben_h > > Well said Ben.
+1 > I was getting a bit weirded out by all the "none of us have certification but > maybe you should get it". I think I was the only one to say anything other than 'certification is useless'. My point was that it's useless to the existing Ruby community, but a newcomer to the language could use certification materials as a guide to self-study (like I once did back in my Java days). Having looked at the Ruby Association curriculum more carefully, it looks so basic it's not worth reading the webpage let alone paying $150 for doing a test. Grab some books and write some code. Come to the meetups and hack nights if you can and get exposure to the community. As others have pointed out, that's the best resume of all. J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
