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Innocent159

Innocent159

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HEY. I've been browsing for a long time and continuous research have me wondering if studying IT next year is for me. In my task I did on IT, I've found out that I would love to study IT because of my characteristics and knowledge about computers and computer networks. I don't know about programming and was wondering if I could find personal experience about the career field and if it is worth studying?
after my 3-4 years course i'm looking at careers as:
Programmer, Software Engineer, Web Developer, Webmaster or Technical Operations Officer.
I want to know any personal experiences and information?
(PLEASE NO INFORMATION THAT I CAN GET ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE I HAVE ALMOST READT EVERY WEBSITE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.)
 
It depends on whether or not you're already passionate about the fields you mentioned. Before I studied Computer Science at University I spent a lot of time playing around with web design. I familiarized myself with the basic concepts (this was when I was at high school), but never pursued the interest any further until college.

At college I studied IT, which involved very little programming and was more about the theoretical side of information technology. I was under the false pretense that I would be introduced to programming in some capacity, but that wasn't the case. This is why it's important to ensure that you learn everything you can about the course(s) you would like to be a part of before taking the plunge.

Because of the lack of programming in the IT course I studied, I spent a great deal of my spare time learning C# and it was during this period that I concluded Computer Science was the the ideal degree for me. I loved every second of my time at uni because I thoroughly enjoyed what I was doing.

You also mentioned that you enjoy the networking side of computing, so maybe that is an area you could look into.
 
I am passionate about the career field (on paper) as I don't know about the real deal. i'm sure i would love the studies because i read a lot about IT and it sounds nice.
i'm more passionate about building computers but as i learned that it doesn't pay well enough so i had to go in another directs and maybe do it as a second career.

first year
development software 1 (DOS100S)
information systems 1 (ISY100S)
information technology skills 1 (MODULE A) (ITS100A)
information technology skills 1 (MODULE B) (ITS100)
systems software 1 (SOR100S)


Second Year
  • accounting skills 1 (ACG100S)
  • business analysis 2 (BNA200S)
  • communication networks 2 (CMN200S)
  • development software 2 (DOS200S)
  • internet programming 2 (IRP200S)
  • information systems 2 (MODULE A) (ISY200A)
  • information systems 2 (MODULE B) (ISY200B)
  • distributed systems 2 (ITD201S)
  • it electronics 2 (ITE200S)
  • technical programming 1 (TPG100S)
  • technical programming 2 (TPG200S)

Third Year


  • business analysis 3 (BNA300S)
  • communication networks 3 (CMN300S)
  • commercial programming 1 (CPR100S)
  • development software 3 (DOS300S)
  • internet programming 3 (IRP300S)
  • information systems 3 (MODULE A) (ISY300A)
  • information systems 3 (MODULE B) (ISY300B)
  • distributed systems 3 (ITD301S)
  • it electronics 3 (ITE300S)
  • technical programming 3 (TPG300S)
any explanation on subjects would be appreciated as internet explain formally with no real human insight (experience)
 
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I am passionate about the career field (on paper) as I don't know about the real deal. i'm sure i would love the studies because i read a lot about IT and it sounds nice.
i'm more passionate about building computers but as i learned that it doesn't pay well enough so i had to go in another directs and maybe do it as a second career.
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If you're more into the hardware side, you should think about a network admin/hardware management role. At the place I work at, we have 4 hardware guys who double as network administrators and as a result they spend a lot of time tinkering with PC parts. I think a role such as this would be best suited to your skills/interests.
 
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Try programming out see if you find it interesting at all.
Udacity, Coderectory, Codecadamey, YouTube, etc are all great free online resources.

Programming jobs are in abundance and pay pretty well.
 
SPS said:
Try programming out see if you find it interesting at all.
Udacity, Coderectory, Codecadamey, YouTube, etc are all great free online resources.

Programming jobs are in abundance and pay pretty well.
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I don't have any programming skills and I don't like the idea of siting in a office whole day. But would look at it and maybe my idea of programming is incorrect and universities or colleges need to be based in Cape Town
 
+-8 hours on coding and help from codecadamy. This is what I came up with: (remember: no previous coding experience. started last night). Any thoughts on my first 8 hours of coding.
 

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+-8 hours on coding and help from codecadamy. This is what I came up with: (remember: no previous coding experience. started last night). Any thoughts on my first 8 hours of coding.
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Some may say yeah it's HTML/CSS (known to be easy on the surface), but TBH if you understood what you were doing and have come up with that in ~8 hours with not coding experience I'd say that it was pretty good.

The next step (for web) would be to look at Javascript then JQuery (a JS wrapper).
 
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Some may say yeah it's HTML/CSS (known to be easy on the surface), but TBH if you understood what you were doing and have come up with that in ~8 hours with not coding experience I'd say that it was pretty good.

The next step (for web) would be to look at Javascript then JQuery (a JS wrapper).
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I will be looking at codecademy and see what I can come up with when I have free time. Matric studies got me hooked
 
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I will be looking at codecademy and see what I can come up with when I have free time. Matric studies got me hooked
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I used to use codecademy. Only ever ventured into CSS/HTML more for a review than anything to help me learn some more outside of my Web Design class. Coding i find is quite fun(from my expeirence) as it makes you think differently. Now sitting for 8 hours a day is not but at a work place its not like you are isolated. You communicate with others and help out, its a team effort.
 
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I used to use codecademy. Only ever ventured into CSS/HTML more for a review than anything to help me learn some more outside of my Web Design class. Coding i find is quite fun(from my expeirence) as it makes you think differently. Now sitting for 8 hours a day is not but at a work place its not like you are isolated. You communicate with others and help out, its a team effort.
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Enjoyed most of today and came up with this:

only problem is a cant get the hang of JavaScript and I don't know what makes the website function and the (www.http://) part. Getting the hang of CSS/HTML and i'm improving.
Any help with JavaScript and how to make it help. would like to learn as much as possible now and run my own website before university.
 

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If you want a better understanding of the http protocol and client side scripting (JS), enrol in the free Web development course on Udacity. It series of videos and coding exercises ran by the founder of Reddit, Steve Huffman.
 
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If you want a better understanding of the http protocol and client side scripting (JS), enrol in the free Web development course on Udacity. It series of videos and coding exercises ran by the founder of Reddit, Steve Huffman.
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Thanx will be spending my day learning from Udacity and will post results to night or later.
 
Feel totally stupid!!:confused:
Does this help creating a workable website or did I spend a whole day learning irrelevant skills
 

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Thank you SPS but is that enough for me to get my website to work and on to the web?
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The website you showed earlier would work on the web, it ran in a browser.
It all depends on what you want the functionality to be.

That course aims at building a blog as a future goal to achieve.
 
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