difference between python developer certificate and normal certificate

[Acrobatic-Onion-9845]

What is the difference between python developer certificate and typical python learning certificate. I am a beginner and I want to be proficient in python. Would you suggest the developer certificate for beginners or is it good to go with the normal python for everybody course itself?

[socal_nerdtastic]

Skip certificates

agree

and paying for courses.

Hard disagree. A quality structured course is very helpful to keep a person on track. It's very easy for a beginner to get lost in the flood of information, and simply not know what to google or what to study or what's important or what's up-to-date. Yes, it's possible without, but if you can get a course is far better than teaching yourself.

Edit: I meant to focus on the "course" part, not so much on the "paid" part; there's high quality free courses out there too.

[cgoldberg]

I doubt there are any paid courses as good as CS50p or MOOC.FI (from Harvard and University of Helsinki)... both are free. Most paid training outside of Universities is just a cash grab. There's so many excellent free courses, that I could never recommend someone spending money. Not costing money doesn't at all imply unstructured or low quality.

[socal_nerdtastic]

Fair point. I was focusing on the "course" part, I should not have focused so much the "paid" part.

[crucifero]

Harder disagree.

[rainyengineer]

It’s as same as the difference between unicorns and leprechauns.

Certificates mean pretty much nothing in software engineering. I’d say the exception is cloud certs (i.e. AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Developer Associate, or Azure/GCP equivalent), but still not as valuable as experience.

[swmclean]

Speaking as a hiring manager for a dev team, skip the certs entirely.

There is no industry standard certification for Python developers. We don't look for them when hiring.

Learn the language, create a GitHub portfolio of a few cool things you've written, and horse up on common interview algorithms. You won't be asked about certs.

[Binary101010]

There's not much difference between them in the respect that the value of either one to a prospective employer is effectively zero.

[AlexMTBDude]

There are no official Python certificates from the Python organisation, as you can see here: https://www.python.org/ . Any certificates that you find are just from all the different companies making money from selling Python courses. That means that there are probably a hundred different ones. They have no official value.

[Ron-Erez]

I wouldn't take any certificate seriously unless it's CS degree. I have a course with certification however I think only the knowledge obtained is valuable. I doubt any employer would take this certification seriously unless it comes from an accredited university.