computing at university

xirokx

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what course would you do at uni if you had just completed an access to ICT course?

computer science looks good but boring....too much maths and programming lool
but its rarely frowned upon by the bigger employer

what else is rarely frowned upon?

to avoid going off topic, all i am asking is what computing course would you study at uni? and to REFRAIN discussing whether computer science course is the bees knees or frowned upon

thanks
 
Well, I did "Computer Systems & Networking" which involved a lot of networking, programming, maths, database and system design, web development and more".

I think most Uni courses (certainly those I looked at) you will run in to maths and programming at some point.
 
what work did you get into after graduation?

you see I would like to become a secondary school teacher, so any ICT degree will do I think? so don't need to put myself through hell unecessary

remember please do not go off topic
 
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you see I would like to become a secondary school teacher, so any ICT degree will do I think? so don't need to put myself through hell unecessary
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If you consider maths and programming "hell" why on earth do you want to do anything with computers? Maths and programming are both fairly important aspects, you know... :confused:

If you just want to teach GCSE IT or something, all you need to know is how to use Windows and basic Office programs (more or less, based on my experience). Just do a teaching course and jump straight in. (Though I'm not sure how much demand there is for GCSE IT teachers...)

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to avoid going off topic, all i am asking is what computing course would you study at uni?
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I wouldn't advise you do one at all, from the way you have dismissed maths and programming. Any academic computing course will contains lots of maths and probably a fair amount of programming in one form or another.
 
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Currently in my first year of "Computing" as a course. My advice? If you're good at computers already, look at alternative routes.

If I go down the web course, the hardest thing we do is PHP...which I can already do...waste of time.
 
xirokx said:
what work did you get into after graduation?

you see I would like to become a secondary school teacher, so any ICT degree will do I think? so don't need to put myself through hell unecessary

remember please do not go off topic
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I worked for a large company dealing with Health and Safety in the UK and abroad, in the IT Helpdesk doing 1st line support, the HQ I was working from had two on-site data centres (I think 1st jobs will be this low spec type) I was there for 4 years, worked my way up to 2nd line IT Support Analyst, then again to Network & VoIP specialist.

I left after my 4th year and joined an Internet Services company as a Network & VoIP Engineer, the company is dealing with business internet solutions, low end/high end network security, site-to-site connectivity, IP CCTV solutions, hosting services. Will have our kit hosted at two data centres at the moment (London THN and Wolverhampton) however we are moving in to own own datacentre we have just bought in May/June :) I can't wait.
 
Redgie said:
Currently in my first year of "Computing" as a course. My advice? If you're good at computers already, look at alternative routes.

If I go down the web course, the hardest thing we do is PHP...which I can already do...waste of time.
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Anyone can learn a language though. Uni is more about transferable skills. I have a placement next year working for a large global bank as a Technical Analyst (not sure exactly what I'm doing yet as they're deciding what team I'll be with). There's no way I would have gotten there without Uni.

At Bournemouth every student who wants to do Computer Science, Computing, IT, etc, does the "Software Systems Framework" where we all start with the same modules and then we specialise more each year. Perhaps try look at what modules each Uni teaches and base it on that. They can vary a bit.
 
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in my experience they are all just computer science, what ever the fancy name is they attach to the course

I wouldnt bother doing a degree unless you want to become a programmer or get on a graduate scheme, or if you just want to get drunk and have fun for three years

a real world course (like MCSE or CCNA etc) and a job in 1st line somewhere would get you a foot in the door, real experience, an industry qualification and less of a bill to pay back afterwards
 
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Just do a teaching course and jump straight in
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I wish I could but you need a degree to teach at secondary school level, thats what I see on the teaching website, there is no other route into it, it appears..

As I want to teach the subject at secondary school level or even to access course students I really do not think a computer science degree is necessary.

As a mature student also, I am far from the same boat as a 18yr old just starting out at uni, I just want to avoid doing computer science (not because of the maths or programming) as I believe the more "convential courses" are slightly more fun and easier and that suits me to down to the ground as I do not want to ulitise my degree to work as an analyst or developer or anything along those lines...

so any recommendations?
 
no recommendations

there are no "easier courses" that are worth taking - you will find that 90% of computing degrees are just computer science with a nice sounding name, and the other 10% are fluffy lovely "digital media" courses that thousands upon thousands of people take because it looks supercool and then cant get work because its a massively flooded market
 
Well why do you want to teach ICT at school? If you like the subject, what aspects of it?

I did Computer Science and I'm a programmer now... I guess something like Engineering would have appealed to me in retrospect but that is because I can see its use when I'm developing software now. But it can be used in a few more fields as well and can be more electrical based. I don't know if investigating that kind of avenue would interest you? There are probably off-shoot courses like Product Design as well.
 
I do Software Development in University, and what we do are transferable skills that can be applied to software engineering in general such as drawing a UML diagram to represent any idea, Object Oriented Programming Concepts (reusability, extendibility, semantics etc.), calculating Algorithm efficiency, MVC, Website Exploits etc.

We also practice these concepts in many different languages (mainly C++, Java, PHP , Ruby on Rails etc.)
 
I did Computer and Networking Technology. The maths wasnt too bad but there was a few big programming modules. It's unavoidable really.

It was a good course as the first 2 years were 'Digital Technology' and then it specialised in networking. Covered all sorts of technology from audio and image compression and algorithms to website design.
 
I'd say for anything other than Computer Science/Engineering Uni is not really required. You'd get further quicker getting in a low level support job and working your way up with professional certs etc.

CompSci/Eng graduates are typically not aiming for these roles anyway, its more development and real engineering than rolling out server patches and changing peoples passwords.
 
Pretty certain all computer courses at my uni have programming and some maths in them.

I'm currently doing 2nd year computer security. Thought i'd choose something slightly more interesting than the other courses.
 
Tikkabhuna said:
I have a placement next year working for a large global bank as a Technical Analyst (not sure exactly what I'm doing yet as they're deciding what team I'll be with). There's no way I would have gotten there without Uni.
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From that job title I can probably guess which bank that is (Swiss?)
If so, it's a great place to be a developer - I was contracting there last year and they're doing a lot of good stuff at the minute.
 
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