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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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Or every time you go to open it it melts and moves away from your hand!
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Misread your subject and could not figure what LDS[^] had to do with a dragon. 
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One is a horrific beast that will chase you down, chew you up and leave your remains in a smoking pile of manure. The other is a mythical creature.
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Kirk: [Explaining Spock's odd behavior] Oh, him? He's harmless. Back in the sixties, he was part of the free speech movement at Berkeley. I think he did a little too much LDS.
Dr. Gillian Taylor: LDS?
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home[^]
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Debbie Does Spock
Oh, not a MQOTD. Yep I thought of that while writing the post.
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Matt T Heffron wrote: I think he did a little too much LDS.
Was Spock a bishop?
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I don't need the LSD, I do have The Wife.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Yeah and the dishtowel hanging from the fridge handle is breathing! 
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Thorazine (chlorpromazine) i.m. stat.
If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself … and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards… If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles." Darth Traya
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Depends on how bad the munchies are, or if there is beer in the fridge.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Spiders, bloody great spiders, I like reptiles so dragons were my friends!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Who do you think hands me my beers?
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Quote: RE: Saving energy in the workplace:
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Use company resources as if YOU were paying for them.
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I have multiple computers running at full load running distributed computing projects, and except for mid summer they're probably the largest consumer on my power bill. 
If I did what they told me to do instead of what they meant, I suspect words like "fired", "don't ask us for a reference", and possibly "charges will be filed" would be used. 
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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Awesome.
But it might also be the grand opening of healthcare.gov?
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Mike Hankey wrote: But it might also be the grand opening of healthcare.gov?
Finland has had a system of publicly funded health care for decades, superior to what we have in the United States: they would have absolutely no reason to reproduce our fiasco.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: they would have absolutely no reason to reproduce our fiasco.
Would anyone?
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