OSI wrote: » Have a look at the likes of http://www.codecademy.com/ and do the tutorials and lessons, and start looking to do some small personal projects. Will quickly find out if it's for you or not. Always though I'd enjoy software development, but once I started doing it in college, I actively hated it, so I'm now in the infrastructure side of things.
Anan1 wrote: » No, I don't. Most of the time it's necessary for the smooth running of the forum. Some of the time, however, I think it's harmful to the spirit of our community. Them's the rules and we can't change them, but it's no harm to reflect on the effect they have on Motors. When certain posters are banned it changes things for the rest of us. Because I've been around for a long time, I care about this forum, and I think that RoverJames made a valuable contribution to it.
Big Nasty wrote: » == Anyway I believe you were told already where to bring it if you want to discuss it.
cabb8ge wrote: » example of the yes man BA mentioned
Big Nasty wrote: » If someone is banned there's usually a very good reason. If someone decides to close their account or abstain from posting on boards that's their own business. Personally I don't see the point in dragging it up or filling this thread with nonsense about it. That's hardly being a 'yes man'.
Anan1 wrote: » Are we to understand that any reference to RoverJames's absence is itself a bannable offence? To quote Jessie Pinkman, That's messed up. That's Kafkaesque.
ba_barabus wrote: » I'd imagine it's because he cares about the place and see that it's now full of yes men, Google experts and a couple of friends who treat the place as a 'Clubhouse'. I could of course be drinking looney juice and be completely wrong. I haven't had the displeasure of a run in with anyone in a long time. I've kept my public comments to a minimum on this as I fear the Chat thread privilege would be removed if someone thought it was too much work to mod again.
CianRyan wrote: » Completely off topic but I know there are a few of you in here, may I ask where out IT heads of studied/trained or are in now? I'm thinking of getting into software development. Been trying to decide what to do in college for a few years now, this is what's stuck with me.
dgt wrote: » I'm in my 4th year of networking in DIT and I love it. This year is all designed around mobile apps and development A good industry to go into
Bpmull wrote: » Do you do much programming / coding in that course ? I do c# and Mathlab in my course and although it's not too bad it certainly isn't my favourite part of the course. As already said Cian the best thing to do is do loads of coding at home and you'll quickly see whether or not you like it. All these kinds of I.T. Programming courses do seem to have good job prospects at the end of it all
barura wrote: » Right lads, applied for my motorbike theory test on the 7th of November. Anyone else here own a bike license? And just remembered about this lecture, absolutely amazing stuff: ]
pajor wrote: » Fourth year DIT too. I do sort of wish I had done something IT related now. Nearly there though.
dgt wrote: » Haven't gone much into matlab but looks like I will have to for this surveillance project for the signal processing end of it. We have a good grounding in C, Java and now currently on C# for windows phones. Starting back with java again for android but using eclipse is a doddle so far. For the first 3 years its mostly a Cisco certified course so routers, switches and wireless hubs?AP's galore. Also did XHTML, PHP, MySQL, Ajax etc for the web development/server/database end of things By we both myself and barura are in the same course so he can vouch for it too
dgt wrote: » This is becoming a very small world :pac: Which one are you studying in?
Bpmull wrote: » That sounds very interesting. The main reason we do programming is for maths really no app developing or anything fun like that I am doing process and chemical engineering so it doesn't really have a lot to do with I.T. Still I really like my course
pajor wrote: » Serving my time in Bolton Street. :pac: DT028 - Transport Technology.
dgt wrote: » I was only up that neck of the woods today and all
Scortho wrote: » any pharmacists around here? Im feeling kinda lonely amongst the IT crowd
pajor wrote: » We have a library to be proud of. :pac:
barura wrote: » Engineering would land you an IT job no problem! I think that any bachelors of Eng or Tech is a great start. A solid internship is what I'm hoping to get at the end of this year (3rd year) that leads into a job or at the very least get me a better looking CV than what it is now, which is mainly service industry stuff.
ba_barabus wrote: » My partner is.
