[BBLISA] Oracle certification for beginner

[Betsy Schwartz]

I think a lot depends on your personal learning style.

Me, I find that the momentum of a class tends to help me learn the most - 
it's the combination of scheduling, having structured problems to work on 
with deadlines, and having the instructor for questions and in-depth 
explanations. Plus you usually get access to a decent computer system with 
a full-powered version of the software installed.

CBT is more like a guided tour - it is OK for learning what features exist 
but I don't find myself recalling that much in-depth  material afterwards. 
It has to be a pretty good CBT course to beat a good book.

And a not-to-be-discounted feature of a university: you *meet* people. Then 
you all go out into the world and network with each other. NU may have some 
good job resources (if they let the night students at them)

At 09:46 AM 1/3/2004 -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>Does it make sense for me to proceed with the NU class with the hopes I'll
>learn from the ground-up, or should I cancel it (class starts Sat, Jan 10
>and runs 11 weeks, each class is 8:30 - 5) and pursue computer-based
>training (aka/or self-paced) of Intro to SQL and Intro to Oracle 9i, and
>even CBT for the NU classes, and see how things go?

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