Introduction to Programming: Additional work for week 22
Now you have covered all the material in the Introduction to
Programming course at Queen Mary, it might be useful to compare
how similar material is taught in a commercial rather than an
academic environment.
One difference is that Introduction to Programming is meant to be
a course on programming that happens to use Java. It is not a
course on "how to program in Java". Commercial courses tend to be
more directly on how to use a particular product.
The Sun company that developed
Java runs a number of training courses in the language. They also
run a
Certification process under which you can get a certificate from
them showing you are (in their view) a certified Java programmer.
Sun do their own training courses for this. Sun's rough equivalent of our
Introduction to Programming is a series of three courses:
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SL-110 Java Programming for Non-Programmers. Duration 5 days.
Cost £1200.
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SL-210 Migrating to OO Programming With Java Technology. Duration 3 days.
Cost £1200.
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SL-275 Java[tm] Programming Language. Duration 5 days. Cost £1500.
These three courses together lead up to the
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform exam, which costs
another £100 to take. As fits a course which is more Java-oriented than
ours, there is material on Java topics we haven't covered such as
networking and graphics, but nothing on more Computer Science oriented
material, such as abstract data types.
You might like to note that the total cost of taking these three
commercial courses given by Sun, plus the final exam is £4000.
Plus VAT. Everything is covered in 13 days tuition.
Matthew Huntbach
26th March 2001