Courses what ones to do?

Cr8or

Ok i was looking at the ecdl and ive heard no good reports about it. Dose any 1 know any better courses. (night courses for about 6 - 12 months?)

Kali

Its not that the ECDl is bad.. its just not aimed at people who already know about computers, its aimed at those who haven't a clue to bring them up to spec with the computer age, so they can be confident and competent with standard apps like Word/Excel as well as the web etc.
I personally think it's a great idea, saves me having to type letters out for my ma anymore anyway

Besides that what sort of courses are you looking to do? What areas are you interested in? web design? programming? networking? security?

Cr8or

well id like 2 do hmm let me c all of them. I just want a course 2 do somthing i like mabe programing/webdesign or even security (/me is starting to like secutity)

Leverz

You could always do something like Inet+ for webdesign, its new but it seems to be being accepted by design companies whole heartedly. You should look about in your local area for someone that is teaching it, or you could always buy a book on it and go for it yourself, I have done the A+ that way and I am currently working on Network+ (well I should be.)

It really depends on what you would like to do, what you see yourself doing in the future, and where the money is. Remember that all these courses are also only valid for a limited time period, as we are talking about an industry that is always changing. Good luck what ever you choose, if you want more information you know where to find me on IRC.

Trojan

Hmm, sounds like the chap needs to look at MCSEs or equivalents. (thats Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)

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Go have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/trainingandservices/default.asp?PageID=mcp&PageCall=mcse&SubSite=cert/mcse&AnnMenu=mcse and see what you think.

Al.

Catch_22

bah, at least do it for a real OS

http://www.sun.com/developers/solbrand

c22

Cr8or

Evil Phil

Griffith College do a full time/partime diploma in computing for graduates:

http://www.gcd.ie/faculties/computing/html/GDC.html

Or you could go for British Computer Society Membership. There are loads of levels starting at Cert. to diploma to graduate diploma (that's a degree). Kevin St. DIT do this course at night:

http://www.bcs.org.uk/exam.htm

The syllabus has changed in the last few years, and is now excellent. I've just finished the diploma level course and am seriously considering going for the degree. All levels are modular and you have a lot of control over what area you want to study.