Hi --

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, WoodHacker wrote:

>
>> It will be a three course
>> series and will end with a Ruby Certification for the students completing
>
> I would certainly hire any student who can become an expert after three
> programming classes.
> In my experience it takes closer to three years of actual working to
> reach that level (and then
> only for a few).
>
> Are you to cover GUI programming as well?    And Rails?    My
> goodness these students will certainly earn their certificates!

I don't think the idea is to treat three courses as a drop-in
replacement for three years of job experience.  It sounds, rather,
like the idea is for people to take three courses, and then to be
given a certificate stating that they have done so.  How that plays
out in the context of employment will of course depend on what level
someone's employing at, how the interviews go, and so forth.


David

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