IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Solano707]

Did you pass? What was your study material? I aiming to take the exam in January.

 

[tofuspeedstar]

If you gonna be doing a lot of Exchange work, starting learning powershell breh. That shyt will make you look like a God. Someone came by my desk on some

Cac: Hey bro, can you write a script to determine how many users are on Exchange 2010 vs 2007. We need it yesterday for a big project, please breh
Me: IDK breh, I can maybe swing it Wednesday or Thursday, that's a lot of damn work
Cac: Come on breh, please

Dumb ass don't know that shyt is only like 5 lines of code

Word. It's on my list right now with the impending testing of the ticketing system.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Did you pass? What was your study material? I aiming to take the exam in January.

Yeah, passed 1st time. I'm assuming you gotta sponsor, right?

I used the Shon Harris book. Studied for like 6 months or so.

 

[88m3]

wrong thread

 

[nomoreneveragain]

Company paying for my A+ class and exam.

5 Day Class starts Monday and I get paid to go to the class too.



Seriously lucky though, my Manager trying to put me on SCCM 2012, Server 2012.

I gotta start spend more time in the server room

 

[NormanConnors]

cosign the bolded to the fullest..i was done with my bachelors and masters by 24 with only an 8 month break in between

what did you get your masters in? other IT heads with one feel free to answer also...just curious to see what the results are.

 

[patscorpio]

what did you get your masters in? other IT heads with one feel free to answer also...just curious to see what the results are.

B.S. - Computer Science; M.B.A. - Management Information Systems

 

[BobbyBooshay]

Company paying for my A+ class and exam.

5 Day Class starts Monday and I get paid to go to the class too.



Seriously lucky though, my Manager trying to put me on SCCM 2012, Server 2012.

I gotta start spend more time in the server room

Good look, I didnt bother A+ but its never a bad thing to have as many certs on your CV

 

[blackslash]

Yall brehs rlly up on dis

SO i just switched over to Computer Science for my major

Taking Programming 101

My professor teachin us how to code(Java) with an open source program called
"Processing" which can be found on the website processing.org

Anyways as u can figure im really new to this sht so a couple of questions

What are the different kinds up programming and coding fields??
Which would u recommend I pursue?
I've just started learning how to code(Java language) any books that can inform me
I see alot of talks bout certs.. when should i pursue acquiring those

ANd also I just need general IT knowledge..what the various fields are, how they are different and similar, an analysis of the market for each field...etc.

LikeI I said..I jus transferred to this major so im kind of a lost sheep in dis mufcka

All help will be appreciated

 

[5010]

Can anybody familiar with batch files tell me wtf a "output character" is? I can't find an answer for it anywhere.

 

[Data-Hawk]

Yall brehs rlly up on dis

SO i just switched over to Computer Science for my major

Taking Programming 101

My professor teachin us how to code(Java) with an open source program called
"Processing" which can be found on the website processing.org

Anyways as u can figure im really new to this sht so a couple of questions

What are the different kinds up programming and coding fields??
Which would u recommend I pursue?
I've just started learning how to code(Java language) any books that can inform me
I see alot of talks bout certs.. when should i pursue acquiring those

ANd also I just need general IT knowledge..what the various fields are, how they are different and similar, an analysis of the market for each field...etc.

LikeI I said..I jus transferred to this major so im kind of a lost sheep in dis mufcka

All help will be appreciated

I'll reply to most of this later( brotha about to go back to sleep....lol ) but for the cert thing. I wouldn't place to much value on them as a programmer. They don't help programmers as much.

 

[Data-Hawk]

Yall brehs rlly up on dis

SO i just switched over to Computer Science for my major

Taking Programming 101

My professor teachin us how to code(Java) with an open source program called
"Processing" which can be found on the website processing.org

Anyways as u can figure im really new to this sht so a couple of questions

What are the different kinds up programming and coding fields??
Which would u recommend I pursue?
I've just started learning how to code(Java language) any books that can inform me
I see alot of talks bout certs.. when should i pursue acquiring those

ANd also I just need general IT knowledge..what the various fields are, how they are different and similar, an analysis of the market for each field...etc.

LikeI I said..I jus transferred to this major so im kind of a lost sheep in dis mufcka

All help will be appreciated

1.)What are the different kinds up programming and coding fields??
The field of programming is very vast, I mean anything type of business or field you can think of( Science, Business, Game Programming, etc. ) I could go on forever.

2.)Which would u recommend I pursue?
Really hard to say, I would wait until you get a little more comfortable with programming. Some fields require you to know a lot of Math/Physics( Game Programming, Simulations, Security Programming, OS Programming etc ) and others don't require anything beyond basic arithmetic(Usually business type of programming )

3.)I've just started learning how to code(Java language) any books that can inform me
You can look on Youtube for some Java Videos


But most importantly, Program , Program , Program Program( Its the only way you'll ever learn it )

Since you are just transferring to CS, hope you are ready for a bunch of Math


You can check out these sites also

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/javahttp://stackoverflow.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/

 

[blackslash]

1.)What are the different kinds up programming and coding fields??
The field of programming is very vast, I mean anything type of business or field you can think of( Science, Business, Game Programming, etc. ) I could go on forever.

2.)Which would u recommend I pursue?
Really hard to say, I would wait until you get a little more comfortable with programming. Some fields require you to know a lot of Math/Physics( Game Programming, Simulations, Security Programming, OS Programming etc ) and others don't require anything beyond basic arithmetic(Usually business type of programming )

3.)I've just started learning how to code(Java language) any books that can inform me
You can look on Youtube for some Java Videos


But most importantly, Program , Program , Program Program( Its the only way you'll ever learn it )

Since you are just transferring to CS, hope you are ready for a bunch of Math


You can check out these sites also

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/javahttp://stackoverflow.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/

Thnx for the reply back...

So i guessin Programmin leans more toward benefiting those with creativity correct?

If its not too much trouble can u give me a basic explanation of the different IT fields(Programmin, Networking, etc.) and how they differ?

Also I get practicing but should I continue to practice with the opensource program i mentioned or will it fck up learning pure java...?

I'll take a look at those books soon... Thanks again

 

[FreshFromATL]

Thnx for the reply back...

So i guessin Programmin leans more toward benefiting those with creativity correct?

If its not too much trouble can u give me a basic explanation of the different IT fields(Programmin, Networking, etc.) and how they differ?

Also I get practicing but should I continue to practice with the opensource program i mentioned or will it fck up learning pure java...?

I'll take a look at those books soon... Thanks again

Another piece of advice, while doing your CS degree, actually learn how to program. The "theory" of Computer Science and actually "programming" are two different disciplines.

 

[nomoreneveragain]

Can anybody familiar with batch files tell me wtf a "output character" is? I can't find an answer for it anywhere.

Sorry for the late reply but output on to a .txt file?

"C:\Mybatch.bat < C:\Output.txt"

the < would be the output character

I could be wrong