O'Rielly School courses on sale, are they any good?

Discussion in 'IT and Computer-Related Degrees' started by emmzee, Jun 23, 2009.

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  1. emmzee

    emmzee New Member

    While browsing around today when I should've been working :) I found the "O'Rielly School" site offering several IT/CS related certs ... The certs are apparently awarded by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

    http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/

    They have a promotion going on for the next week (until June 30) where if you register for a cert program they give you 30% off, so the certs are all around $1,000 (3-4 courses each). It sounds good so I'm considering it:

    https://oreillyschool.com/enroll/

    Anyone tried one of these? I'm most interested in the Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate ...
     
  2. AlphaSaint

    AlphaSaint New Member

    As far as I know, these O'Rielley courses are not bad. They typically use O'Rielly's own books and those books are pretty comprehensive. Additionally, UofI is very well reputed in CS field.

    I have been looking for a certification course in Ruby on Rails but haven't managed to find it yet. There is one in University of Washington but I live in Canada. So, I won't be able to get that. If anyone knows online (and reputed) certification course for Ruby on Rails, please post it here.

    My employer pays for me to do these IT certification courses as long as they cost less than $1000/year and are in area of:
    - Computer programming (Java, Ruby)
    - OS (Sun Solaris, Linux)
    I already have Sun Certifications (SCJP, SCJD). So, I was also looking at these O'Rielly courses (UNIX admin course) just to use the funding that I have available. If I don't find a Ruby course, I might get this O'Rielly ones.
     
  3. BlueMason

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  4. AlphaSaint

    AlphaSaint New Member

  5. emmzee

    emmzee New Member

    I did a quick search and found this free online course by "Sang Shin" apparently he's employed by SUN Microsystems, it won't give you a certification but eh, it's free:
    http://www.javapassion.com/rubyonrails/
    It looks like he's partway through the current session, there's lots of materials on the site like ppt slides, homework assignments, links, example code, etc.
     
  6. AlphaSaint

    AlphaSaint New Member

    Oh I already know Ruby on Rails. Just wanted to use funding I had available from my employer for certifications. Thanks for the link anyway though.
     

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