nice. Whatever it takes. What we're seeing in the industry is that a lot of programmers are just people who are not only self starters and not educated in the art of programming but they're also lucky.
They were lucky enough to have a friend or two who could get them started by supplying them with help building whatever environment they needed to learn and some advice along they way.
That's what we'd like OST to be. A friend for people who aren't so fortunate to have access to the kind of resources they need to learn this stuff in the first place. The certificate thing is a nice goal for our students to attain and we hope we're turning out good enough people to make it worth something.
Hey, I'm the director of OST.
I agree. Certifications are bunk. We're trying something different.
U of I certification for passing courses that help you get some experience. For instance we're currently building plugins for Eclipse that will turn it into a learning management system so that ppl we can teach more languages and skills.
We think the only way to learn is by doing it. We're simply helping ppl to do it.
Hi, I'm the director of this thing.
Our goal is to eventually become accredited, but to do so we'll have to get some rules changed. There are a lot of rules that exist either because of the legacy of the classroom, or because of the limitations of the first generation of Learning Management Systems (LMS companies like Blackboard lobbied to get implemented.
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Ultimately, that is the goal. How we and the community responds and contributes will determine the outcome.
Sorry, we don't supply the ham sandwich.
nice. Whatever it takes. What we're seeing in the industry is that a lot of programmers are just people who are not only self starters and not educated in the art of programming but they're also lucky.
They were lucky enough to have a friend or two who could get them started by supplying them with help building whatever environment they needed to learn and some advice along they way.
That's what we'd like OST to be. A friend for people who aren't so fortunate to have access to the kind of resources they need to learn this stuff in the first place. The certificate thing is a nice goal for our students to attain and we hope we're turning out good enough people to make it worth something.
Hey, I'm the director of OST. I agree. Certifications are bunk. We're trying something different. U of I certification for passing courses that help you get some experience. For instance we're currently building plugins for Eclipse that will turn it into a learning management system so that ppl we can teach more languages and skills. We think the only way to learn is by doing it. We're simply helping ppl to do it.
Hi, I'm the director of this thing. Our goal is to eventually become accredited, but to do so we'll have to get some rules changed. There are a lot of rules that exist either because of the legacy of the classroom, or because of the limitations of the first generation of Learning Management Systems (LMS companies like Blackboard lobbied to get implemented.