Friday, November 22, 2002
I had thought that the final day of class was going to be strictly review, applying what we already knew, but instead it ended up being an amalgam of things already learned and a few new things in an applied application. From scratch we built an online membership login application which could do basic checking for duplicate entries, and allowed new members to join. Cool.
While I could have taken a course with more depth than this, I fully understood everything being taught, and will be able to apply it to practical use immediately. I figure I got my money's worth, though I wish a more advanced course was available.
The instructor, Saki, is apparently Oracle certified, and at one point during the lesson he digressed and talked about the relative values of certification and taking IT courses. He didn't think much of most of them, saying that you can get most of what you want out of a book instead of having to do the coursework. I asked him about Red Hat certification though, and he thought it was a good thing: "there will always been a need for Unix and Linux administrators". A further spur for my pursing Red Hat Certification of some form...
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