Want to do a course in computing

justbringit89

Hey i'm in leaving cert and wonderin
1. whats the best computer course to do???
2. What kinda job would i get ??? what does it entail
3. an average salary?
4.Is there much work in ireland for someone with a this degree

before you answer i have to save i'm really interested in multimedia and video editing etc ..........


I would really appreciate all the feedback because i have the cao form to fill 1st of feb ....Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!

Smellyirishman

justbringit89 wrote:

1. whats the best computer course to do???

That's a completly personal choice. What if I said Somthing in umb was best (that's in Boston btw). Or more locally, if I said something in Limerick was best, are you willing to travel? (of course, I dunno where you are located atm but these are just examples)

What if I told you a programming intensive course was best but your real interest was graphics or networking.

Best computing course for media and video editing, I don't know tbh. I don't know if you would even call that a "computing" course. Not to be condesending or anything, I just think when someone says "computing" course they mean computer science.

Anyway, I am doing Computer Applications in DCU and have been loving it. Just what I wanted, however there isn't an ounce of Media or Video Editing (You could encorporate it into some of your projects but they are not focused on at all really).

justbringit89 wrote:

2.What kinda job would i get ??? what does it entail

The opportuinities are far to varied and entail a whole pethora of things. Too much to go into without a better explaination of what your looking for.

justbringit89 wrote:

3. an average salary?

Again, that's pretty hard to give. Generally you will start at around 20k and then things will start to go up. It's and endless scale though. I won't give any averages as I don't know having yet to progress through the brackets. Great money if your good at what you do.

justbringit89 wrote:

4.Is there much work in ireland for someone with a this degree

Again, since our ideas of "computing" have not been defined clearly this is hard to answer. I have no idea about multimedia and video. As for programming, database management and all that. Plenty of work.


Sorry about the rubbish answers, but I am not totally sure what you are into. Have you tried coding? Do you enjoy working with computers? (and I mean working, not playing!) Are you interested in lower level computing or is it just software that interests you? (IE, modelling with studio max/photoshop and video editing)

aidan_walsh

i'm really interested in multimedia and video editing etc

Then you'll probably want to do a multimedia-based course, not a computing-based one.

justbringit89

ah no .. all help is appreciated .. yeah i love using pregrammes like photo sop... or video editing(unlead video studio ) ..... i would like to go to dcu or even galway

Smellyirishman

Then like Aidan says, your probably looking for a multimedia course and not a computing one.

IADT do a few.
DCU have some stuff, noteably;this one.

That's the stuff you might be more into so you can go looking for other courses in other colleges.

Anti

Do a search on this tpoic, there was a thread exactally the same as this a few months ago. its long.... really long. But some great advice on it.

justbringit89

i just thought a computing course would be the way to go... it seems that a multimedia course would be hard to get a career out of in ireland .. has anyone here ever done this course

Cake Fiend

Senior College Ballyfermot do a lot of very good multimedia courses.

What's the point in doing a computing course if you're not interested in computing in general? You should try to start a career that your'e interested in, in this case, in multimedia (even that's quite a general term).

justbringit89

but i'm interested in computers .... more multimedia but still computers ??? just wondering is the computers a hard course ??? I have a great interest in computers

Anti

start of with a comptia a+ and a n+ ( hardware and networking )

Then if you like networking do a ccne/a or a mcse/a.

Best bet is to ring your local college or fas and book a appointment to go in and have a chat.

irlrobins

Don't confuse a like of doing multimedia stuff on a computer with liking computing. They're very different. That would be like me saying I love doing spreadsheets and doing computing instead of accounting.

The courses mentioned above are probably the strongest multimedia based ones. Trinity also has a strong multimedia side to their computing courses afaik. If you want a 'proper' computing course, computer science in UCD is rated the best in Ireland.