It'd definitely show that he knows his shit, better than passing the college course I did :v:
ladies and gentlemen
our IT curriculum
That could have been me! I did my exam at Pitman and I got 100%! :v:
That's all our schools teach in IT anyway
He's gonna be swimming in pussy when he gets back to the UK
[QUOTE=Willox;41744271]That's all our schools teach in IT anyway[/QUOTE]
And it's a shame too, I became very disillusioned with a career in IT after my experiences of IT in school thinking it will be a boring think to do as a career. It was only when I was failing the course I was doing in my first year I realised how wrong I was.
Please watch my dubstep quickchart montage
[QUOTE=Willox;41744271]That's all our schools teach in IT anyway[/QUOTE]
My IT teacher tossed us in the deep end. We started with making basic games ActionScript3 (I've still got the file somewhere) and then we went on to making Android apps. Basic computer use is a prerequisite at our school and if you don't know how they dragged you in a day before school starts and teach you.
You guys must have a really shitty IT curriculum in the UK. Here we spend the last semester of school working on a project where we connected a program to a database and used the data to display meeting information for a real world company. Then we had a meeting with the IT company where we presented our works and got to look at a professional solution to the same problem one of the guys there had made. We also got to talk to them about getting into the IT industry and stuff which makes it probably one of the most fun classes I took in High-school.
Imagine if he spent his time learning something useful like programming. What a waste.
[QUOTE=Willox;41744271]That's all our schools teach in IT anyway[/QUOTE]
Actually ICT was scrapped last year and replaced with a proper computer science GCSE as part of a complete overhaul of IT teaching in schools
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16493929[/url]
[url]http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/ict-and-computer-science/gcse/computer-science-4512[/url]
[quote=article]There's no other way to prove you know exactly what you're talking about, without certification.
"Certification is validation you know what you're doing."[/quote]
Lol.
How about actually doing something useful with what you know instead of bragging about the certification?
I'm pretty sure Da Vinci never had certification in painting, sculpting, architecture, music, mathematics, engineering, inventing, anatomy, geology, cartography, botany, and writing, but he still did them. And with them he did far more than your average degree-wielder ever will.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;41744804]I'm pretty sure Da Vinci never had certification in painting, sculpting, architecture, music, mathematics, engineering, inventing, anatomy, geology, cartography, botany, and writing, but he still did them. And with them he did far more than your average degree-wielder ever will.[/QUOTE]
Da Vinci lived in different times. You try getting a well-paid job among people who have the certificates to back them up without having them yourself.
[QUOTE=FPSMango;41744774]You guys must have a really shitty IT curriculum in the UK. Here we spend the last semester of school working on a project where we connected a program to a database and used the data to display meeting information for a real world company. Then we had a meeting with the IT company where we presented our works and got to look at a professional solution to the same problem one of the guys there had made. We also got to talk to them about getting into the IT industry and stuff which makes it probably one of the most fun classes I took in High-school.[/QUOTE]
Well that's all well and good, but what about the people who aren't looking for a job in the IT industry and still need to know how to use microsoft office products?
[QUOTE=slamex;41744977]Well that's all well and good, but what about the people who aren't looking for a job in the IT industry and still need to know how to use microsoft office products?[/QUOTE]
I might have misunderstood what you guys in the UK talk about then saying 'IT'. Where I come from people usually don't think Office products when saying IT, but rather programming or web-development.
And that is kind of the issue with the word 'IT' in education, there's so many things covered by that word it becomes hard to differentiate what people are really talking about. In my opinion we should split the term 'IT' into more specific terms so that there's no confusion to what people are referring to.
does he even have eyes
[QUOTE=slamex;41744977]Well that's all well and good, but what about the people who aren't looking for a job in the IT industry and still need to know how to use microsoft office products?[/QUOTE]
Considering I used them for pretty much every other lesson I can't see why it is needed to be focus for an entire subject, The only MS based program which needs a bit of leaning is using access which for a typical office job would likely be manged by someone else.
The amount of people I see on my uni course thinking IT A-Levels and such would help them suddenly got hit in the face when the first day they start talking about programming.
[QUOTE=lordofdafood;41745380]Considering I used them for pretty much every other lesson I can't see why it is needed to be focus for an entire subject, The only MS based program which needs a bit of leaning is using access which for a typical office job would likely be manged by someone else.
The amount of people I see on my uni course thinking IT A-Levels and such would help them suddenly got hit in the face when the first day they start talking about programming.[/QUOTE]
True, but you also have to remember there are plenty of people out there who still aren't computer literate and need to look to be taught about the basic of computer programs to get them into jobs. I don't have a GCSE in IT but I still know a lot more about computers then people who do have a GCSE. Did I learn that stuff in school? No, I learnt it at home in my spare time. Same people who do that are probably the same people who want to focus on programming and such and go to uni to learn more.
I really like that he's still using Word 2007. 2013 is full of fucking casuals
Why would somebody need to prove that they can use Word
Everybody knows how to use Word
What do these competitions even entail?
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