O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 13, 2008 @09:32AM from the sunday-school-ribbons dept.

Joel Aufgang writes "O'Reilly Media's O'Reilly School of Technology in partnership with the University of Illinois has just launched a Java Programming Certificate Series, which looks like it's intended to compete with the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) certification. According to O'Reilly's press release, this is not an exam-based certification but rather a series of project based instructor-led courses that, if you pass, earns certification backed by the University of Illinois. Also interesting is the use of Eclipse as the preferred learning platform as opposed to Netbeans."

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Pigs by Anonymous Coward · 2008-11-13 10:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Does anyone take those certifications seriously or are they there to take money away from programmers who don't know any better? I very rarely see a job that requires them and I think those that do are posted by folks who want to share the loss of money.

Also interesting is the use of Eclipse as the preferred learning platform as opposed to Netbeans.
They're both pigs. They take too long to start and whenever I move my cursor, they both hang - and this is with a 1.6 GHz Duo, a gig of Ram, on XP. Geeze, WTF! Do I need a frick'n gaming machine to write code now?!?