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I think certifications of that sort are geneneraly overrated
I know that I put to many things for the test, but I think that the certified need to be good, or don't make sence! The best thing of Perl is that the user is free to learn for the test, since the information about Perl is free.

I already know what I am capable of doing with Perl. Why do I need a piece of paper to prove it?
You don't need to prove to your self, but to other peoples. How an employer will know that you are good or not for what it want?

I would have excluded Perl installation and Apache configuration from the certification, since it's really sysadmin's job and can be tricky sometimes.
I think that know how to put Perl in some machine is important for any Perl developer. Can be a sysadmin job, but a Perl developer can't be dependent of a sysadmin, and need to know how Perl works in the enverioment that he was using to make a good job!

My Idea was to make a certification for high level Perl programers, but other levels of certification can exist. But I think that a good certification can't be easy, you can't show only the basics.

I know that certification world is ugly, but we need that for us! To tell to the world that Perl programers are good. And since Perl have the Perl community, we can chose how the certification will be, and don't make a market about this, using the money to the Perl community or Open Source projects. And I think that a hard test will tell that the certification is good, not the money that you have to pay, this is why I think that it can be free, and you can make it how many times you want, you just need to be good get an A in the test!

I think that the test can be free, you just need to make a donation of any amount of money each time that you make the test. And the certification can have the basic level where the user know just the Perl syntax, the medle, and the high level where it know ate least all the basic resources of Perl.

As an employer I need Perl certification to find good programers, and I know that Perl programers want good jobs at Perl. We can do that with certification, but we don't need to make the certification process in the ugly way.

Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

In reply to Re: Perl Certified! (for every one) by gmpassos
in thread Perl Certified! by gmpassos

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