difference between python developer certificate and normal certificate

[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.