On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:11:46PM -0500, Clinton Pierce wrote:
>
> > If there is to be a certification standards board who grants such things
> > they have to evaluate and give their stamp of approval. The certification
> > is only as good as the granting organisation. [...] ...someone just needs
> > to start doing it as I doubt that there will be any agreement [...]
>
> Well, there's a few things we'd need to know before setting up, even if
> we just hack something out quickly. First, will there be multiple
> levels of certification (Newbie, Competant, Fluent, Abigail) or just a
> single level of certification. Next we'll need to build a list of what
> we consider to be the skills required to be at any of those levels.
>
> Finally, a testing procedure will have to be developed, as I know my
> boss isn't willing to accept a certification just because the instructor
> says it's so.
>
> So where do we start?
By picking up where others left off, I'd say! 8-}
You might be preparing to "reinvent a wheel" here. At TPC 2.0, over
two years ago, a guy staying at my hotel was proselytizing on behalf of
Perl Certification, and he was one of many people who had already been
working together on establishing tests of Perl competency for nearly a
year at that point; there was a link to their web page from a perl.*
page (.com or .org) at that point too, but I don't see it now.
They posted many messages to comp.lang.perl.misc at that time. I believe
they had "Institute" in their name, which might have been something like
the "Perl Certification Institute".
I'd recommend trying to find out what happened to that project before
going too far in the direction of repeating their efforts.
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