From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 11 2002 - 10:49:15 MDT
I will not presume to tell you what you should
study but I can give you some information about
my personal experience.
If you want to be a developer/programmer:
I am a java developer. Everything I learned,
I learned via computer books and hacking.
If you want to be a programmer you might want to
go to school to learn the fundamentals of computing
... aka
1. programming constructs such as if conditions,
for, while loops, simple logic, pointer arithmetic
2. basic algorithms for sorting, counting,
queues and stacks
This can all be covered over the duration of a year.
Everything else you learn by reading books and
reading other people's code. The field of computing
moves very very fast. Most problems you come across,
you will need to resolve on your own - old newsgroup
archives also help.
Reading and hacking high quality code is the
fastest way to gaining experience. I don't believe
going to school makes you more marketable but
participating in free software projects on SourceForge
will give you access to high quality mentors and
high quality code.
I hope this helps.
As far as certification goes if you really wanted
to be "Oracle DB Administrator" getting certification
will probably get you a job.
Many large institution will also look favourably
upon "Enterprise Java Bean/Server Certification
from/or
approved by SUN Microsystems".
YP
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