W3Schools Certification Is It Worth It?

[ZInventor]

i've registered for W3Schools HTML and PHP certification, but am having second thoughts as to whether it's worth it.

still, i'm studying my butt off, hoping to pass the exams.

has anyone else passed the cert tests?

do you think it's worth it?

-Z

[kitfisto92]

i haven't taken the exams but my thought is to definitely take it. The worse that happens is you become an expert at HTML and PHP and can point out flaws as easily as the validation service. to me, it also sounds like a good investment for any future changes you may want to make to the site, and overall will help you a lot with your future website endeavors.

good luck

[nathanww]

Personally, I've learned everything I know about HTML, CSS, javascript, etc. just from RTFMing, dissecting other people's work, and just jumping in and doing it. So for me, it doesn't seem like it would make much sense to pay 75$ to get a certificate for something like that.

On the other hand, if you think it's worth it for you, and you've already registered, go for 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

[Marc Wentink]

I think these certifications are a nice goal to have when your are doing some self study, but I would not put al whole lot of them on your C.V. (Like more then 5.)

As far as I can see, but I modestly must say I have never done these exams, the subject is too small, and the certifications goes online without any control? Well I do know too many small certifications for not that big subjects from not that much recognized institutions are not valued. Better only put one or so on your C.V. that is relevant to the job your applying to. I makes an impression like 'do you really need to say that for something like that you have some strange certification?'

Only put 'big' certifications on your C.V. and only a few.