RE: Certification

["Christopher Fowler" <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>]

That is not the point.  Java Certification proves you can read a book 
and take a test.  It does not mean you can code when the requirements 
are outside the box. 
 
I would still hire experince over certification even in mission 
critical apps.  Why would I not? 
 
 
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> Ok, one last thought on my (biased) view of the value of 
certification. 
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> People in IT are among the few groups of professionals who are not 
> required to adhere to a certain standard. Doctors have to go to 
medical 
> school, lawyers have to pass the bar exam, but what about the ones 
who 
> develop the mission critical applications that all industries use?  
If 
> nothing else, the Java Programmer certification is a way to 
quantifiably 
> measure one's basic concepts of the Java Language. This is a bad 
thing? 
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