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[Justin Dearing]

If you want to convey your skills, a cert or a brainbench is probably the
way to go. Certs aren't perfect, but they will tell you how much of a
language you know.

If you want something more holistic, its probably best to contribute to a
mature existing open source project. This allows you to say:

   1. My code is useful
   2. Others have seen my code and found it acceptable to include with
   theirs
   3. I have demonstrated something useful with X aspects of a language


Justin



On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Lester Leong <lester.bleong at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not sure, but there was a time when I wanted to improve 3 languages at
> once for an interview and came up with a scheme to test myself. Something
> along the lines of percentage of the standard library one can recite from
> scratch, and implementing the same set of algorithms and data structures
> without looking at the documentation.
> On Jul 26, 2013 8:52 AM, "leam hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not that I'm looking for a job right now, but there's always the future.
>> Is there a reasonably common scale for saying how good you are with a
>> programming language? Something more than "Rate yourself on a 1-10" scale.
>>
>> In my case I can read several and am trying to improve a couple. It would
>> be nice to be able to concretely convey my skills. Of course, that doesn't
>> really cover related skills like version control, SDLC, etc...
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Leam
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/>
>>
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