W3Schools Certification Is It Worth It?

[BandChick]

I look at is as follows:

Is this something you're going to be doing for the rest of your life (or at least a long time)?
Is this something you're really passionate about that getting this certificate makes a difference to YOU?
Do you think it will help your professional career?

I think w3c is seriously under-used and under-rated. Personally, I wish more people spent the time to learn to write cood code in the first place. I don't necessarily think you need to take their course to LEARN that, but I think that you'd learn a lot by doing so.

Ultimately, if you're excited about it, if you think it's worth pursuing because you're going to gain something positive from it, then I say go for it!

[pyr0b0y]

I used W3Schools to start learning HTML, but what really helped me is just viewing the source of the page and altering lines of code and a LOT of experimenting. You get a good grasp of what different tags do. Although I do have to admit that W3S does a great job of explaining HTML and CSS

[ZInventor]

Well, I'm going for it!

test is tomorow (Friday, may 14th 1009)

i'll post back once i get the results!

Wish me luck!

-Z

[scottmacdonald]

How did it go?
and how tough was it?

Can you give us a sample question?

[ZInventor]

I passed!




overall, i got 56/70

the test took me about 16 and a half minutes, but, included alot of stuff not covered in the w3schools tutorials.

even so the test was fairly easy since all of the questions were multiple choice.

however, i did not get the "degree of excelence" which requires that you miss no more than one question.

sample question:

Which of the folowing are all table elements:

• <tr> <table> <tt>
• <tr> <tt> <td>
• <table> <tr> <td>
• <tt> <table> <td>

there were also questions like this:

True or false: XHTML must be well formed.

the questions that got me were on CSS, and i haven't studied it too much, so i had some difficulty, but, i still passed,

Next up: PHP/SQL Certification!!!

(will happen in a few weeks...)

thanks for the support!

-Z