| Well the context is online courses from Harvard, MIT. Such as the CS50 course referenced by many even in this thread.
Those courses are free, there is a option for a certification for around 150 dollar. People actually learn the basics of CS and foundational knowledge in those courses.
And how to use git and GitHub. I never stated that those certs, or courses alone would be enough.
This comment thread started because someone called it anti-signal.
Listing anything on a Resume is never pointless, it tells us something about the potential hire. Courses like the one mentioned are open, which means if you wanted to test that knowledge you could, easily. That could tell you so much about the potential hire: * Did they actually do the course. * Did they retain the information. * Did they understood the material. * How did they use the information, in their own projects or clients. From those answers you would even be able to learn more about their seniority level. The point is, "anti-signals" is just not everywhere the case. It might be for some, sure. But how many of those would like to see formal CS education? Seems that even you are more on the side of actual code examples. And in order to create great code, allot of deep knowledge is needed. Which those courses provide. |
Sorry, but you have absolutely wrong ideas about resumes, how they are read, and what information they convey. Both descriptively and normatively.
> Courses like the one mentioned are open, which means if you wanted to test that knowledge you could, easily.
If I have to test anything, I'm going to test the actual job skills. But actually the point of a degree/certification/whatever on a resume is to show me that someone else already did the testing so I don't have to spend time doing it. Conversely, if I have to test it again, it's pointless to put on a resume.