RE: Certification

["Jack J. Coleman" <jackjc@bellsouth.net>]

The Programmer Certification doesn't but the Developer Certification
certainly does show one's ability to code when the requirements are
outside the box. It is the basis for the assignment, a vague set of
requirements that you have to interpret, and then design and code the
system. 

I am not arguing the value of experience over certification, just trying
to make a point that certification is not completely worthless as some
would think.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Fowler [mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:25 PM
To: Jack J. Coleman; ajug-members@ajug.org
Subject: RE: Certification 


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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