Wow..thats a real good idea.<br><br>I am interested in working such a python resource...'cause I feel I am in that boat of people..who dont know what they dont know. I guess creating such a resource would help one learn Python automatically. <br><br>Website created in Python, for learning Python...<br><br>Any pointers...where to start from?<br><br>Vishal<br><br><b><i>Jeff Rush <jeff@taupro.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Dorai Thodla wrote:<br>> Anand,<br>> You make some good points. I have had similar experience to the one you<br>> describe with certified Java and .NET progammers too.<br>> <br>> It may be interesting to find out what python.org <http: python.org=""><br>> thinks about certification.<br><br>Hi Dorai. As far as I know, in my role as former Python Advocacy Coordinator,<br>there are no Python certifications anywhere. Sometimes there is
talk that we<br>ought to have them, but a large number of people are against the idea. Not<br>that that would matter, in that any group of people could start it moving, and<br>those who like the idea would use it and those who don't can ignore it.<br><br>I personally have an interest, not in formal certification which relies upon<br>the reputation of some evaluation company, but in what I call my "So you think<br>you know Python..." project. The idea would be to have a website where people<br>can go to test themselves, with links to learning material that fill in the<br>gaps identified in their knowledge. The questions would not be fixed but<br>dynamically generated, so that a person cannot just memorize the answers. And<br>if desired an employer could sit an interviewee down in front of a PC and have<br>him complete the test in front of him.<br><br>No such system is perfect but it would give a starting point for measuring the<br>capabilities of a Python programmer.
I don't look at it as some enforcement<br>measure for catching pretenders, like most certification does, but rather for<br>helping those medium-level programmers who have learned enough Python to get<br>along but don't know what they don't know and could use pointers to advanced<br>lessons. The idea is to help create better Python programmers, in an<br>non-corporate, opensource manner.<br><br>I hope some year to show something like this off at PyCon but currently lack<br>the time to implement it myself.<br><br>-Jeff<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>BangPypers mailing list<br>BangPypers@python.org<br>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers<br></http:></blockquote><br><BR><BR><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div id="RTEContent"> <div
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