Quote Originally Posted by T.Jackson View Post
You'll have trouble filling seats with "serious contenders" unless it's actually accredited by a recognized institute.

Unless you're holding a bachelors degree in education (or similar) I would never bother seriously considering it.
Of course I don't currently have the knowledge, resources, or accreditation to attempt it myself-that's why I was just trying to encourage what I thought was a great idea to some of the PBP gurus on this forum. I'm pretty sure that RCG's course doesn't hand out college credits to passing participants-it would really be for individuals and employers that have a need for a thourough understanding of the PBP language and some real-life uses and better information about programming PICs over what can be found in the current books available on the market today about the subject. A couple or few gurus from this forum with a bit of HTML (and preferrably, like you said Mr. Jackson, educational) experience could get together and design a course that could teach students/participants the basics of PBP and real-world examples/uses of PIC MCUs that could be completed at the student's leisure.

An online course would be preferrable to many, and could be completed at their own pace without the need to take time off work, provide travel and hotel accomidations, food allowance, etc. by having to physically appear at a predetermined location that could be hundreds or thousands of miles away from their home and families. Like I said, I'd be up for a similar course no matter how much PBP experience I have (or don't have) for the simple fact that you can NEVER know EVERYTHING there is to know about ANYTHING. There's ALWAYS more to learn. When you get to the point to where you think you know it all, that's the beginning of the end. I'm sure that there are quite a few tips and tricks some of these gurus could show us that could save most of us more than just a few headaches and a few bytes of ROM...

It's just an idea at this moment, but I'd gladly be one of the first paying students to learn all the course could teach me...