[LRUG] Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer Silver

[Daniel Tenner]

If you were an employer, would you consider this certification useful?

Daniel

On 11 Aug 2008, at 18:5911 Aug 2008, Simon Tokumine wrote:

> 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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