As per Nigerian-German Business group, a 12-year old boy Allwell Worgu repeated a record of Nigeria repeated a record set six years ago by a Pakistani girl in mastering the SunÂ's Java Certification exam. First, let me congratulate this kid, as itÂ's quite an achievement.Now let's take a look at this fact from a different perspective. To me, itÂ's just another fact proving that Java certification does not bear much value.
And what noble reasons for trying to take the test!
The kid "strongly believes that blacks are more intelligent than the white", which does not stop him from considering Harvard, Oxford and MIT. I wish him good luck in getting into one of these schools. But there is a really long way between passing a Java certification exam and getting accepted by Harvard.
If it weren't for the fact that Africa is such a backward continent, this would be mildly offensive rather than a joke. My experience with the SCJA, which I took as a practice exam to see what the real exams might be like, was not so positive. These certifications are a good way to demonstrate some sort of basic knowledge of how to write code in Java and use various Java technologies, but they are not even close to the education that you would get in a real Computer Science program.
What's ironic about this is that far from being proof of "blacks are more intelligent than whites" as he put it, it inverts that goal into a sort of talking dog exposition. Passing a single Sun certification exam is far removed from actually doing something meaningful with the knowledge that one allegedly possesses with it.
I got an 84 on the EIT. I guess that makes Scots-Irish guys the smartest of all. ;)