Re: The Value of Delphi Training

From: G. Bradley MacDonald (bradleyAT_at_telusDot.net)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:05:24 -0700

In article <412761a3$1@newsgroups.borland.com>, johnjac76[nospam]
@comcast.net says...
> Recently someone made this claim about Delphi training: "I am often asked to
> teach on a number of topics and subjects for itemsthat I do not use on a
> day-to-day basis. This happens a lot in the training World." The person making
> this claim also implied that it is normal for training in a given product or
> technology to not have any experience or certification in the subject.
>
> Is this true? Those of you who have taught classes in Delphi, how common is it
> for you to not have actually used or been certified in the subject matter? If
> you are teaching a course in D8, for example, how common is it for you to not
> have any significant experience or certification in D8? How many training
> companies will let you teach such a course anyway? If you
> are teaching a course, how much preparation does it require?
>
> It seems to me that if it is common for Delphi training to be taught by those
> who have no experience or certification in the subject that this training is
> essentially worthless. I say this as someone who used to teach for a living
> (college and university level economics and statistics). Any trained monkey can
> read from prepared texts. But when the students ask questions, the lack of
> experience or direct knowledge becomes a real barrier to learning.
I have had this happen when I took a VB course years ago. As well it
happened when I took a Lotus Notes course. In both cases I got up and
left after the 1 first day (both were 5 day course). I got my money
back for the remaining 4 days (in one case anyway). I was very offended
that the person teaching the course could not answer what I considered
simple programming questions outside the course material. I have heard
of this happening in one or two other courses on MS topics.
However, I have never encountered this when I took the Delphi courses.
The trainer really new Delphi and had used it.

Bradley MacDonald

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