Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:26:31 -0700
Reply-To: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Preparing for SAS Advanced Programmer's certificate
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At 08:58 PM 07/22/2003 +0200, J. Woch wrote:
>Jack Hamilton wrote:
>
>>I'm curious why you think this certificate (as opposed to the knowledge
>>behind the certificate) would be useful. Have you seen a job offer
>>requesting it? Has someone who doesn't stand to make money from your
>>taking the test told you that it would be useful to your career?
>
>Well, I believe that experience isn't always the better way of preparing
>for new tasks since it doesn't force you to try something new.
>Preparing for certificates is a good chance to be forced to try
>something new .-)
>Besides that, what I'm really after is the webAF certificate, which
>presupposes the advanced programmers thingie.
>
>
>Regards,
>Jens
Zing!!!! - Kapow!!! .... and even, Zap!!! (and you know you've been doin'
SAS a *long* time if you remember Zaps ...)
Holy Sh_t Batman ......
Jens, I'm sort of in the Jack and Mad Doggy camp re. certification.
But I have to hand it to you, this was great response for, speaking only
for myself whose been a SAS Code Dog since '75, there is plenty new in SAS
these days that I never seem to get around to trying.
Heck, I still write code w/ a text mode editor (Semware's Q-Edit) and an
occasional GUI'd one (UltraEdit) vs. display manager, use DDE extensively
compared to ODS, "puts" and maybe some Tabulates vs. Proc Report (sorry
Ray) .... and on and on.
Don't let old geezers like us (in this kennel) put you off in your
(possible) desire to get certified; he_l: more power to you.
My kudos to you, of course, don't lessen my/our view that certification may
not really be needed to get a good job/assignment.
Best regards
P.S. And yes Virginia, I am certified (Base) and am an Alliance Partner.
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