--------------enig2DEB2D2865D30EF8D32A632C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Gregory Brown wrote: > On 11/10/06, x1 <caldridge / gmail.com> wrote: >> To increase validity and assure authentication, the certification >> process should be proctored by an independent agent. > > The students should be asked to post to RubyTalk indicating they've > just completed the course. Then we can interrogate them, and > eventually come to a consensus of whether or not they pass ;) > Ugh. Just. Ugh. IIRC my optional school Java course and the level of language knowledge I gained from it correctly, having come to a mailing list of an equivalent level, I'd simultaneously annoy and depress the hell out of myself both ways. In mildly related news, I'm also getting a migraine trying to understand the above paragraph. There's a Ruby Quiz idea, a natural language processor that can syntactically untangle my rants ;P David Vallner --------------enig2DEB2D2865D30EF8D32A632C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFVc9Hy6MhrS8astoRAuTJAJ4rbLkahqXc/PmjZYOhQ0ZF3CbD9wCdHXU1 MyWCujANt+Q9qx3UqOsO9BE gb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2DEB2D2865D30EF8D32A632C--