When will the Grasshopper Certified Specialist Testing be available?

[ruxinx]

The next step in mastering Grasshopper? Getting certified of course!
Any updates on when the Grasshopper Certified Specialist exam will be available?
Would love to know!

[laurent_delrieu]

I am curious to know where it is useful ?

[ThomasE (Thomas Evans)]

I remember throwing that idea out there last year…

Never used grasshopper

In terms of tutorials and trainers, I am curious if there are any upcoming plans to introduce an Authorized Grasshopper3D Trainer program. It seems that being an Authorized Rhino Trainer doesn’t necessarily indicate expertise in Grasshopper. Moreover, it’s worth considering that an Authorized Grasshopper3D Trainer might not need to possess advanced scripting skills, although such skills could be seen as a valuable asset. A potential improvement could involve implementing a skills assessment to…

[ruxinx]

I really wish I had a legit trainer when I struggled with Grasshopper as a beginner. Personally, I prefer structured, high-quality tutorials with clearly defined topics for each session so i can index based on my questions. When I was learning Autodesk Fusion, these kinds of tutorials saved me a lot of time and helped me reach a comfortable level where I could explore on my own. Fusion360 provided a solid foundation for beginners for sure, we even got a instructor from Autodesk for a morning, I learnt so quickly and did my final thesis with it.

[rajaa (Rajaa Issa)]

@ruxinx

I prefer structured, high-quality tutorials with clearly defined topics for each session

Does this newly posted course on rhino3d.education help? It includes structured learning with support.

Grasshopper Fundamentals: Algorithms & Data Structures

[TomTom (Tom)]

I think the point of becoming certified only matters if you solve a task which itself yields a certified product or if your local bureaucracy wants you to do a job in a regulated fashion. Without any regulation, a certificate will only tell another person that you received official training and maybe solved a relative simple test at the end. Of course there are also really hard certificates out there, but then it could be that a really good developer might not pass this certificate, just because of the effort it takes to pass it. So what I’m thinking is that certificates tell you very little about the skill a person has. Additionally, if I would read that an applicant emphasis on collecting certificates, I would also be a bit suspicious. Thinking out-of-the-box is a skill you rather need nowadays. But its my personal opinion, and maybe the majority thinks different…

[inno]

I 200% agree with that, generally speaking I really don’t perceive certifications as “business cards”, especially in a broad field like the many possible applications of gh… I’d rather see certifications as more of a “guarantee” that someone has a basic understanding of methods, data structures, workflows etc

the thing of knowing the software itself says very little about a person’s real ability to solve problems: despite stuff always having some sort of geometric foundation, their complexity can be abstracted far beyond that

being PyCharm certified won’t make me less noob in python

[ThomasE (Thomas Evans)]

I see your points, and I actually agree, certifications don’t necessarily reflect real skill, and I wouldn’t rely on them alone to judge someone’s ability. My initial thought came up simply because there’s already a precedent with the Rhino certification, so I was curious about how it would apply to Grasshopper, especially considering beginners who might not know where to start.

Of course, those of us who’ve been around the forum for a while already know who’s truly skilled
if @TomTom ever hosted a workshop, I’d sign up without hesitation, certificate or not! But again, my intention was never to push for a certification program, just to explore the idea based on the existing Rhino precedent.