Re: Certification value (was Bitwise operators)

[Curt Smith <chsmith@speakeasy.net>]

My incompetence at subtle sarcasm in my post below caused at least a few
folks to misunderstand that I was actually attempting (poorly) to advocate
certification.   SCJP though would not be my suggested end point, rather
SCWCD plus SCEA.   After passing both and many others, I found the
design of SCWCD to be an excellent test of ones knowledge of JSP, Servlet,
taglib, web.xml etc.  Modern trick question design of multiple choice _can_
be tough and rigorous.  Take the SCWCD if you think it's so easy and of no
value.  :)

Appologies,  curt

Curt Smith wrote:

>>
>>> I will probably offend many people by saying this, but I place no 
>>> value in
>>> being certified.
>>
>>
> I agree regarding SCJP.   Referring to beyond SCJP, analogously I'm 
> glad the
> American Medical Assoc. doesn't feel that getting a BS in biology is 
> sufficient
> to be an effective brain surgeon, there is also more to learn and is 
> of essential
> value including and even beyond SCWCD, SCEA, IBM XML , , ,
>
> curt
>
>>>
>

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