I’m going to create a certification for an “ls” command.
GitHub Certifications (Beta)
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Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)
#102I really don't understand those certificate business on computer related skills. It changes too rapidly and certificate of last year doesn't guarantee the current skill. Anyway, I quickly glanced the sample exam questions. https://github.com/certifications > Which statements are true about GitHub Marketplace? Honestly, I have never heard about the term GitHub Marketplace at all. Frankly, I don't want to relies on ran…
>How do I suppose to know that without getting any alert previosuly? By reading every GitHub documents and committing it to the brain? Isn't that how one normally prepares for an exam?
It is. Does that knowledge help to use git/GitHub in any way? If you can have a certificate without practically using git/GitHub while people who use git/GitHub every day failed to get one because they don't bother to flash card GitHub trivia, is that certificate worth something?
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#103My disappointment is immeasurable. This is going to cause a worse Github culture to emerge.
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#104No, thanks. Github was dead to me after they held "diversity" conferences telling people that "tech is not for white folks to lead" and the MS acquisition just sealed the deal. This just reaffirms it again, I will never drive any business or money towards Github.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank god most of the non-corporate software industry regards certifications as a way to pad a non-impressive resume and not something actually valuable.
Why is it certificates are viewed this way and degrees are not? Is it a class thing? Or are there really just no good certificates.
Mostly a class thing but also a reflection of the fact that the exams are crammable without understanding. MCQs work that way unless you make the question back very large. A computer adaptive test could bypass this but it doesn’t feel like it assesses your knowledge the way even a test composed of short answer questions does. It’s not like anyone in the US who’s passed the bar exam holds it in particularly high esteem and for practical purposes doing that presupposes you have a JD.
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#106Ugh, this has Microsoft's playbook written all over it. Introduce a certification, thus increasing the gap between developers who (had their employee) pay Microsoft and developers that didn't. Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft's specific implementation (Github), muddying the difference in managers' lexicons. Attempt to set Github as a standard to reach in everyone's mind. I mean there's a c…
> Introduce a certification, thus increasing the gap between developers who (had their employee) pay Microsoft and developers that didn't. Did anyone ever take Microsoft's "Microsoft Certified Application Developer" or "Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect" titles seriously? I was still in high-school when I heard about it. I asked some SWE friends of mine who told me that they didn't take it seriously due to the…
The people that have it are Microsoft consultants, incl. Microsofts internal consulting crews. They like these certs, and take as many as possible and nowadays LinkedIn shows tons of Microsoft employees (outside internal engineering) who brag about the xth number of some random cert.
But Amazon is no different.
Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)
#107Dumb enterprisey 'certification' aside, I can see the free course being effectively used during onboarding (esp. intern/grads, but anyone can not have used GitHub or even git before, just because it's not what previous employer used) at which point being 'certified' becomes a handy 'get out of going through that again' card...
At least at the university I went to we had multiple classes that required using git and plenty of freshmen came in with at least a basic understanding.
Yeah of course, or one might have been contributing to the Linux kernel since age 12, had internships or worked on open source as a hobby.
But not everyone, and even if so, there might be value in ensuring a base level understanding of 'use of git & GitHub', especially if you happen to do it in the GitHub proscribed way.
I'm sure many organisations have worse/more obvious/less worthwhile-as-viewed-by-new-hire on-boarding to go through!
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally I've found certifications are a good way to show you're good at passing certifications, and nothing else. I have nothing against people who show up with their resumes filled with them, but it's not a valuable indicator in my opinion. I'd rather see what they've built. Show me some useful things on your github or blog. That I can see value in. Obviously we're talking about software-related certs, not pilots…
When recruiting, I usually take certifications as a token of the lack of skills rather than a demonstration of skills
What if you have both certifications and skills?
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#109Oh my. This is the first new thing that's very "Enterprise Microsoft" since they bought it, isn't it?
All the things that Github already had in the pipeline are done. Now it’s time for MS to start thinking up new ideas?
Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)
#110The main problematic thing about this is that it can be used as a way for Microsoft to push their beliefs and agendas. It further centralizes git even more. For example (extreme case to make a point), imagine if the questions were like: 1) Which is the most reliable git platform? (a) github (b) gitlab (c) gitweb 2) Which is the best license for new code? (a) MIT (b) GPLv3 (c) ALv2 3) Which is better for coding? (a) s…
Taking a look at the sample questions provided (questions and correct answers): Q4: Which licensing statement best describes a project to be truly open source? * it is recommended to choose a license because without it, the default copyright laws apply (technically correct but yeah) Q5: Which statements are true about GitHub Marketplace? * a digital catalog with hundreds of software listings from independent software…
Q4 seems to be ensuring that people are informed that source visible and open source are not the same thing. If you don't understand copyright, it's easy to think that you can just publish code without a license and have it be usable by everyone for any reason.