What if Certifications Didn’t Suck?

Matt Eland
4 min readJan 26, 2021

Let’s talk about certifications.

And, with that last short sentence, I’ve triggered a good portion of readers. Programming certifications tend to be a very polarizing topic, and I think it’s worth talking about the good and the bad.

In this article, I’ll briefly summarize the traditional arguments around certification, and then talk about why I think that’s the wrong…

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Matt Eland

Microsoft MVP in AI, AI Specialist at Leading EDJE. Author of "Refactoring with C#".