Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: can you give me some hints on the Oracle Java SE related certificates? Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:00:57 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <92ec7821-b17d-4af8-9c99-8a7649fa64ec@googlegroups.com> <4245d965-6d79-4bdf-accd-dc51520d3273@googlegroups.com> <313f817e-9d7c-4939-a971-7e2b2a85d35f@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 14:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a78aad8b483612fbf45d18e918df0cca"; logging-data="16575"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BNgjD4Ta/rdeZkePge2wOP2dt+Zf8T7w=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 In-Reply-To: <313f817e-9d7c-4939-a971-7e2b2a85d35f@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:6z50DONFgyNDa8B8z7l0P30SrAA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32618 On 09/18/2015 11:23 PM, John wrote: > On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 6:58:12 PM UTC-4, Jeff Higgins wrote: >> On 09/18/2015 02:11 PM, e.d.programmer@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 1:52:38 PM UTC-4, Jeff Higgins wrote: >>>> How will Oracle Java SE certificates make your students more valuable. >>>> How much more valuable? More valuable to whom? Who says? >>>> >>>> ---- >>> >>> Assuming they're not going to be self employed, the value is to a potential employer, which is hard to quantify because potential employers are not required to send rejection letters. If you have a certification you're going to be far below someone with a US 4 year college degree in the programming field, unless you have a comparable degree, then that certification tagline could bump you ahead of them. >>> Just read the description of the certification and be sure it applies to the job you want or it may just be a waste of money. >>> >> >> I'm concerned that the topic of Java Certification didn't come >> up during an interview for the position of "Java instructor of >> computer science in a local college in a developing country in Asia" >> >> As a student trying to decide whether to enroll in a course led >> by the OP I would have been grateful for a pointer to this thread. > > Jeff: > If you really have nothing better to do, here is one Java SE question for you: > Can you explain to me why Java cannot have multiple inheritance? Please note, I am asking WHY. This is Java 101 question. I am sure you look shining when my future students look at your answer on this thread, or the opposite way. One of the other. > For some of your more curious students you might point to the chapter titled "Data Abstraction and Object Orientation" in: Scott, Michael L. Programming Language Pragmatics. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. You may see all editions here: