Information Technology. How hard is the maths?

Sully

Media999 wrote: »

HTML, CSS, XML, Ajax, PHP, MYSQL , Java, Javascript, JQuery in SSD. Maybe more i cant think of.

Projects you can incorporate anything else you want yourself also.

Really? Only touched on surely?

Media999

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Thanks for the replies, i appreciate it.

Can i ask if anyone knows if any other languages apart from Java are taught in both IT and SSD?

Java it seems in Semester 1. In second semester i see they do Web Design which would be the HTML CSS and Javascript. MYSQL is probably in there somewhere at some stage.

I see they changed the name of the IT part time to IT support. Maybe im looking into it too much but maybe people are going into support jobs in call centres and the likes rather than becoming programmers etc.

Media999

Sully wrote: »

Really? Only touched on surely?

How do you mean touched on? In first year i made a full ecommerce site designed from scratch using all the web programming languages mentioned as a project. People who failed didnt do so much.

Project is pretty much to create a website using all the Web languages except PHP as thats year 2 but you can use it if you want and not get marks for it.

java your given a system and told to copy it down to a tee. Cant really use your imagination for that. All your doing is copying but your definitely learning.

Sully

Media999 wrote: »

How do you mean touched on? In first year i made a full ecommerce site designed from scratch using all the web programming languages mentioned as a project. People who failed didnt do so much.

When you say 'full', what exactly did it do? And you used Java and PHP?

Media999

Sully wrote: »

When you say 'full', what exactly did it do? And you used Java and PHP?

Not java. In 1st year we used HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery. However i used PHP as it called for it.

Full as in from start to finish. Fully functioning and selling goods. Paypal shopping cart. Wouldnt have a massive stock system and only sells three types of good. Car parts so has a dynamic PHP page that changes when you select the model and type.

Obviously not Amazon big but no templates where used no off the shelf shopping carts like zencart / Wordpress or anything.

xirivella

Musicman2000 wrote: »

So is there any work from studying Information Technology? or is it a waste of time

I finished this course last year and all 6 of us found jobs within IT, all in different areas, software engineering, analysts etc.

I do agree that this course is very broad and if you think that you want a career in programming, then the SSD is a better option as there is a lot more coding involved in that course.

Media999

xirivella wrote: »

I finished this course last year and all 6 of us found jobs within IT, all in different areas, software engineering, analysts etc.

I do agree that this course is very broad and if you think that you want a career in programming, then the SSD is a better option as there is a lot more coding involved in that course.

Any jobs in Waterford do you mind me asking? Did you have to move / Emigrate?

xirivella

Media999 wrote: »

Any jobs in Waterford do you mind me asking? Did you have to move / Emigrate?

Not many in Waterford for people just out of college, most companies here want at least 2 years experience so its hard to get your foot in the door.

I was lucky and managed to get a job based on the work I had done in college.
Most of my other classmates moved to Dublin.

They are crying out for people in Dublin (and Cork to a lesser extent), so if you do well in the course and don't mind a job outside Waterford, you should have no problems picking something up in one of these places.

Media999

Yep just typical that. Might as well just go to Canada. If im moving im gonna move properly.

xirivella, where did you go for, and what did you do on work placement?

xirivella

Deleted User wrote: »

xirivella, where did you go for, and what did you do on work placement?

I along with a lot of other IT students didn't find any work placement.
You have to find work placement yourself and there wasn't to many companies taking people on when a did it a few years ago.
If you don't find work placement you have to do a certified course instead.
There are courses in Adobe and Java etc..
You have to do an exam at the end of the course which you have to pass.

Ah yes. Cheers.