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Ah, yes. Ruby Star. My cousin used to record with her after Black Oak Arkansas. But there were no rails or any other track marks. She wasn't really into needles.
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Looks like they might postpone his finals for a very long time?
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More like he's changing his major to soap picking...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Today I took a shot at the Microsoft 70-461 certificate, Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
I got a preliminary 812 points. I needed 700 to pass and the maximum is 1000. Not bad I say
That's my second (Microsoft) certificate in a month (and my second overall).
Luckily I won't get bored... I just ordered three new courses from the Open University
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Congratulation!
I think about getting the MS Certified C# Developer certificate in the month between the end of my apprenticeship and the start of my military duty - How did you prepare for yours (The certificate, not the mil. duty)?
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Thanks!
The C# exam was not so hard for me since I already had 3+ years experience in C# so I knew a lot already.
I had also written some articles for CP already which helped me get deeper into the matter, which certainly helped during the exam.
I did read the following book though: MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#[^].
I answered all the practice questions and focused on the stuff I scored bad at. Even when you don't know the answer to a question the first time chances are you won't forget a second time!
With SQL Server I was not so experienced (although I've used it for a few years as well, but just the simpler SELECT statements). So I read the following book: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012[^].
I wrote two articles for CP about the subject (one is actually still a work in progress as I couldn't finish it on time for the exam, expected to finish after the holidays). This helped me A LOT since I had to think of how I was going to write down certain stuff and I had to think of use cases for the database I used. And as Albert Einstein said: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Again, I made all the practice questions in the book and focused on the parts where I scored bad.
Good luck!
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Thank you for the tips, Sander. I will consider them while learning for my exam.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Another thing that helped me, by the way, was to watch online learning video's. For example the Microsoft Virtual Academy[^] has some nice vids.
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Thanks!
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Congratulations!
/ravi
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Thank you!
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Congrats! Not a bad score at all.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Thanks!
I guess everything above 700 points is just over-achieving
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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That's like saying I am having too much fun.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Actually there was a time when I felt like I had studied to much when I scored over 55 (out of 100, the minimum to pass for most exams over here).
Lucky for me my grades didn't get much higher than that
That was at school. Three years ago. I'm a changed man...
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Which OU courses have you signed up for? (I did a few of their courses myself). I was going to try for a MS C# exam once, but the format and types of question they asked looked so boring that I couldn't motivate myself to bother (good qualification to have though). At least the OU get you writing code in the exam which is much better in my opinion. I suspect things may have improved on MS exams now though, I am going back a bit.
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I did a Microsoft C# exam last month, but it was almost all multiple choice. The ones that aren't require you to choose some code pieces and put those pieces in the correct order or in the right spot.
The advantage MS certification has above OU courses is that the OU is pretty all-round, while MS certification really can get you going with some specific libraries.
If you have a couple of years of experience in a MS field you could simply try to get certified without too much study.
Right now I have OU courses on web development (client side), communication mechanisms and object oriented analysis and design.
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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My problem was that the course provider switched from C++ to C# part-way through the course as MS withdrew their C++ exam (to push out C# which was new then). Not only did this add a year to my preparation, but I was expecting a C# coding exam and instead would have got what you said - a quiz on some of the (then key, now largely obsolete) C# class libraries. Also, there was no application to Web development, which I think was the wrong approach to C#. Lots of MCQs asking about specific classes and functions and what they did - not what I wanted for my first professional course. All in all I felt a bit miffed and so never took the exam. Having done lots of maths courses with the OU (to extend my degrees) I then did one of their Java courses. This was a very good course, albeit quite introductory. Now I find the OU too expensive, so I have done no more with them either! I simply use whatever meets my needs these days, which is actually mostly JS, HTML 5 and PHP, occasionally Java, C++ and C#, and the odd specialist scripting language. Not sure where to go next - there are too many technologies to chose from and I still have not found one I want to dedicate myself to.
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How you're going to grab a snack when the fridge is guarded by a dragon?
speramus in juniperus
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Grab yer vorple blade and have a snicker snack?
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The only thing better would be a Snickers Cake[^]. I think I'll head to the store!
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