[Python-ideas] Python certification

[Wes Turner]

edu-sig may be a good list for such a discussion; though you may find more
information on Python lessons aligned with CS/Science curriculum standards
than professional certification.
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

> This list is for discussion of Python in education, however (at the
request of a majority of readers) explicitly excluding educational politics.

https://www.google.com/search?q=python+certification+psf

- Wiki content from 2008
- https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-certification-for-a-Python-programmer


On Thursday, August 9, 2018, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 06:40:23PM +0100, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> > Hi Oleg
> >
> > You wrote
> >
> > >    In what way certification programs are related to documentation,
> > > especially to the tutorial?
> >
> > One way is through syllabus. Necessarily, a certification via exam
> > requires a syllabus (or a course of study). There is, implicitly, a
> > syllabus in https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/.
>
> I think that Oleg asked the wrong question. With sufficient imagination,
> it is always possible to draw *some* kind of relationship or connection
> between virtually any two concepts, "six degrees of separation" kind of
> thing.
>
> A better question is, how are questions about third-party certification
> programmes on-topic to this mailing list?
>
>     "This list is to contain discussion of speculative language ideas
>     for Python for possible inclusion into the language."
>     - https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas
>
> Third-party certification is not a speculative language idea for Python.
> It's not even an idea for documentation about existing language
> features. Third-party trainers and teachers may, or may not, mine the
> standard Python docs and tutorial for concepts, but regardless of
> whether they do or not, I think that discussions about third-party
> certification programmes are off-topic and should be taken to either a
> specialised mailing list or SIG (if there is one):
>
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo
>
> or to Python-List.
>
>
> --
> Steve
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