[LRUG] Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer Silver

[Simon Tokumine]

Sorry - RPL is "Ruby Programming Language" book by o'reilly.

Si

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Simon Tokumine <simon at japancentre.com>wrote:

> http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/rubykaigi-interview-with-matz
> http://www.ruby-assn.org/certification/programmer/index.html.en
>
> I'm not normally one for tests, but I took and passed (woo!) the new Ruby
> Association Certified Ruby Programmer Silver test today. I booked online via
> Prometric and sat it at QA-IQ on Roseberry Avenue in Holborn. Cost £80. You
> get 1.5 hours, but you are done by the end of the hour.
>
> The test contents were a bit of a mystery as there are no past papers,
> however I did find a hard as nails Japanese sample test here:
> http://projects.netlab.jp/ruby-test/
>
> Some thoughts therefore for those non-Japanese speakers who are thinking of
> taking it:
>
> 1) The English questions are pretty easy compared to the Japanese sample
> paper so don't sweat it
> 2) Read Chapter 9 of RPL, then read it again.
> 3) Don't spent any time on learning the command line arguments and
> Environmental Vars
> 4) Do spend time on Array Manipulation, Exception handling, Regex
> 5) Don't really spend so much time on inheritance, mixins etc.
> 6) It's basically a Ruby grammar test as opposed to a measure of software
> engineering, so don't expect any questions on DSLs, Duck Typing, or how to
> implement the Decorator Pattern. Just learn the basics.
>
> If anyone's got any questions I'd be happy to answer them, I'll maybe even
> try and recall some sample questions from memory.
>
> Si
>



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