IT is difference from Maths for example. you can’t pick up a maths book and go through it learning everything, because you need someone who knows it to verify your correct in your working etc. IT is similar, but, you can verify these things yourself.

If you were to make a game for example, you write your code, and your character opens a door. If you go to said door, and it doesnt open, something is wrong with your code. The programmer knows he only needs to look at the door part of the code.

With maths, you would need to look at the entire sum from start to end, you have no way of telling where its gone wrong, or what your doing is correct in any way.

Alot of IT is trial and error. You don’t need to be a networking expert to setup a basic network. As long as the basics are in place, to somoene who doesn’t know wtf your doing, your a genius to them, when all you’ve done is stick in a router and make it dial up to your ISP.

IT can be learnt, but a course is never required to learn it.

school.

You CAN learn any aspect of IT in a course. Perhaps you wont be the best. maybe you wont be able to work your way round certain problems from experience. But you pick these things up in years.

But you CAN learn how to do a certain job.

Everything is learnt one way or another.

i want to hack ppl over teh intarwebs omg i am so leet

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*deep sigh*

I think I speak for the entire games industry when I say that someone who only programs games for 30k a year and a company car can get the f*** out of our industry. I know telented people who got turned down for programming jobs after getting Masters in computer games programming from good universities. They had to go away and build games from scratch and then start in at a low level for big games corporations.

You can put people on a course that teaches them MS Office, you can put people on a course that teaches them (rudimentary) Java, C++, VB, you can put people on a course that shows them how to build PCs and rig networks. You can put one person on all these courses and he still wouldn’t know IT, he’d know some MS Office, some programming, some hardware, and some networking.

John

all it required was for you to do a 30 day it course costing 500 pounds, so you learn 30 days of it and get a job in it :/