Blackboard
Please feel free to put any specific suggestions in here, comments, new ideas etc. My idea is to keep Certification and Certification_Proposal in the form of documents (which anyone can of course edit) and to treat this page as scratch space for developing and sharing ideas in a more chaotic way. Please number new ideas and suggestions so that they can be clearly referred to in conversation.
Idea Number One
Idea: in addition to the three levels, there could be optional add-ons, modularizing the scheme. These would be the equivalent of "minor degrees" at the bachelors level. For example, "extending and embedding" could be an optional add-on. I, for one, have no experience and little interest in extending and embedding, and I don't see it as an essential part of knowing Python. If I had to know about extending and embedding to gain certification at the professional or expert levels, it would be empty knowledge: studied for the test, then quickly forgotten.