Where are all the computer nerds?

vipor · 02-05-2010, 10:16 AM

Teach me! I'm tired of selling shit for a living. I like dealing with the people (except my Boss's wife) but otherwise it's sooooooooo remedial.

theDreamer · 02-05-2010, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by vipor

Teach me! I'm tired of selling shit for a living. I like dealing with the people (except my Boss's wife) but otherwise it's sooooooooo remedial.

Unfortunately I am learning each day.
I have no certs currently but will probably by the end of the year. Long story short, the guy in charge of our setup in Houston actually is in the UK (with all the rest of the IT/IS department) and he is leaving the company. No one else knows the system, other than me, but I am not 100% ready to take the position so I will slowly be pushed into it basically.

If you need help, PM wstar on the boards. He has been working with Android for awhile but not sure he has any finished work.

ChrisSlicks · 02-05-2010, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by vipor

Teach me! I'm tired of selling shit for a living. I like dealing with the people (except my Boss's wife) but otherwise it's sooooooooo remedial.

It's easy and fun to learn, you don't need a degree to learn. The best way to learn is to get yourself a pet project to work on in your spare time, and then you can learn what you need to learn as you go. The trick is breaking up the project into small manageable pieces so that you can focus on a small task rather than the whole project. If you did 2 years of C++ then you should have enough to get you rolling, download a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Express (free) and the Windows SDK and read the online guides on how to get everything configured. You can play with compiling the samples in the SDK to knock the rust off.

vipor · 02-05-2010, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks

It's easy and fun to learn, you don't need a degree to learn. The best way to learn is to get yourself a pet project to work on in your spare time, and then you can learn what you need to learn as you go. The trick is breaking up the project into small manageable pieces so that you can focus on a small task rather than the whole project. If you did 2 years of C++ then you should have enough to get you rolling, download a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Express (free) and the Windows SDK and read the online guides on how to get everything configured. You can play with compiling the samples in the SDK to knock the rust off.

Yeah I remember back in the day getting a few VB books and learning that way. With all of the online tutorials and crap it should be easy to jump into application programming with C++ especially since I've kept most of the concepts of things like functions and recursion fresh doing PHP. Web of course is not the way I want to go. I did it in the past right about '99/'00 for a living and it was not a good way to make money. I'll probably take some time to do that, but I'm thinking networking might be the right way to go as far as a real job goes.

blinkme323 · 02-05-2010, 11:26 AM

B.S in comp sci, I currently work as a programmer. Mostly unix/Linux, and dare i say it, vms.

soCo · 02-05-2010, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by vipor

Yeah I remember back in the day getting a few VB books and learning that way. With all of the online tutorials and crap it should be easy to jump into application programming with C++ especially since I've kept most of the concepts of things like functions and recursion fresh doing PHP. Web of course is not the way I want to go. I did it in the past right about '99/'00 for a living and it was not a good way to make money. I'll probably take some time to do that, but I'm thinking networking might be the right way to go as far as a real job goes.

VB...yuck! haha.

Some newer technologies that I think would be good to learn would be:

WPF/WCF
anything Web 2.0 (I know, I know, it's really just a buzz word) like JQuery/Prototype pretty much anything using AJAX.
Python

Web Development can be a very good industry to get into, you just need to get into a Software as a Service project and get away from Web DESIGN jobs.

Honestly, without Web Development I would never of learned enough to get into the software side of things. The job I start in July will be my first Software job.

I've had three internships during college, one doing asp.NET/c# and SOAP web services, the other was just a html/css internship - it was easy money, the third was another web app using Ruby on Rails and REST. Without the first and third internship I think I would be lost as a programmer...Penn States IST program is more for networking and project management - not really development.

vipor · 02-05-2010, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by soCo

VB...yuck! haha.

Some newer technologies that I think would be good to learn would be:

WPF/WCF
anything Web 2.0 (I know, I know, it's really just a buzz word) like JQuery/Prototype pretty much anything using AJAX.
Python

Web Development can be a very good industry to get into, you just need to get into a Software as a Service project and get away from Web DESIGN jobs.

Honestly, without Web Development I would never of learned enough to get into the software side of things. The job I start in July will be my first Software job.

I've had three internships during college, one doing asp.NET/c# and SOAP web services, the other was just a html/css internship - it was easy money, the third was another web app using Ruby on Rails and REST. Without the first and third internship I think I would be lost as a programmer...Penn States IST program is more for networking and project management - not really development.

I haven't gotten into AJAX/RoR/.NET at all. Definitely is where things are going online though.

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