Certificate of Achievement

Filed in: Life Log — July 24th, 2004

Certificate of Achievement

This Certificate accredits that Liew Cheon Fong has successfully completed the Microsoft Approved Course: 2373 Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net (19^th July 2004 – 23^rd July 2004)

That is the certificate I got at yesterday after completed the one week course of “Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net”. The cert is signed by Steve ~~Balimer~~ Ballmer, President and CEO of Microsoft Corporation.

Cool huh? Actually it is pre-printed signature, printed as with the cert, just like the LimLeongSek signature I have on my Tunku Abdul Rahman College certificate.

Thought it is not certificate of passing the VB.NET exam, but at least we get something after paying so much time and $$$ for the passed five days. It is also the first cert for dh in his life until now. He is more excited than me, I think.

So, what I learned after the course? Now I know what is .NET framework about, VB.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, .NET web services, etc and how to write simple program using VB.NET(You don’t expect I become expert in 5 days, do you? ).

In order to complete the entire Microsoft Certificated Application Developer(MCAD) course, I still have three weeks to go. Next week will study on ASP.NET.

Thought:
Someone asked me why study .NET programming since open source is so hot now and growing rapidly? Well, I think master one more skill is not harm. I hope to arm myself to have multiple skills, who can write software and web application for both open source platform(e.g: Linux) and Microsoft Windows.

I like open source, but I don’t hate Microsoft.