On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 16.07.2005, 19:39 +0500 schrieb Mustafa Abbasi: > > is there an online exam or coarse i can take to get a certificate in > > python. preferrably cheap and online because i live in pakistan and > > online exams are my only hope. > > Not that I would know. Certification for a programming language is even > less useful IMHO than for administration knowledge ;) As a warning, the general feeling among the open source community seems be be that most certificate programs are useless. For example: http://wingware.com/pipermail/marketing-python/2002-February/003790.html is anecdotal, but does reflect the popular sentiment that someone who has a portfolio of real programming projects at hand can show more promise that who who only has a certificate. I don't believe there is a consensus yet on a strong, legitimate accreditation program. Most of us on the list probably don't know too much about formal certification, as many of us here are volunteers. But I suspect that any of the professional organizations (IEEE, ACM) should be able to help you in this; try contacting your local engineering groups. You may also want to ask your question on the main comp.lang.python newsgroup. Wait, I see that you may have done this already: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-list/2744017 Ok, hopefully you should be able to get some answers from there too. Good luck to you. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
