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Hey everyone, Im a 21 year old male :), I currently work as a C# developer, but i feel like i miss something, which is a university Degree, i know its gonna help me alot in my career.Does anyone know a very good on-line degree program, those sort of "study by yourself at home and get degree after"? Or any good Universities around the world which has good IT courses? I really would like to start. Thanks and Regards, Luke Always trust your techno lust
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Hey everyone, Im a 21 year old male :), I currently work as a C# developer, but i feel like i miss something, which is a university Degree, i know its gonna help me alot in my career.Does anyone know a very good on-line degree program, those sort of "study by yourself at home and get degree after"? Or any good Universities around the world which has good IT courses? I really would like to start. Thanks and Regards, Luke Always trust your techno lust
Try the Open University[^]. They have various computing qualifications to choose from, and their prices are reasonable. AFAIK they will take on people from anywhere in the world. http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/classifications/information_technology_and_computing_main_page.shtm[^]
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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Try the Open University[^]. They have various computing qualifications to choose from, and their prices are reasonable. AFAIK they will take on people from anywhere in the world. http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/classifications/information_technology_and_computing_main_page.shtm[^]
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
Hi, Don't go for the Open Uni option ! I am a developer in many languages with 8 years experience, I wanted to do a Masters degree. As I only have a HND I was told I had to do a degree first (6 years) and then a masters (4 years). When I contacted a real university and explained my background, they asked me if I wanted to teach the MSc rather than study it! They understand what experience gives you, the OU does not. My advice would be to find a local university which does part-time degrees and get your employer to let you work flexi-time to attend one day a week, this is what I am trying to do for the MSc I wish to persue. Cheers, Users. Can't live with 'em, can't kill em!
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Hi, Don't go for the Open Uni option ! I am a developer in many languages with 8 years experience, I wanted to do a Masters degree. As I only have a HND I was told I had to do a degree first (6 years) and then a masters (4 years). When I contacted a real university and explained my background, they asked me if I wanted to teach the MSc rather than study it! They understand what experience gives you, the OU does not. My advice would be to find a local university which does part-time degrees and get your employer to let you work flexi-time to attend one day a week, this is what I am trying to do for the MSc I wish to persue. Cheers, Users. Can't live with 'em, can't kill em!
My understanding is that Luke has industry experience, though maybe not as much as you, and wants a qualification to back that up. OU are well respected, but as with any distance learning you are expected - required in fact - to do a lot of the work yourself, find placements, etc, as there is limited classroom time. If you already have a lot of what is required by the course then you just have less work to do, that is where your tutor would come in, it is their job to work with you to find out how good you are. Of course if he can get sponsorship fom his employer than take that route every time, aside from it costing him less it shows his employer is seriously placing value in him. I assumed that he couldn't get that though. :~
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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My understanding is that Luke has industry experience, though maybe not as much as you, and wants a qualification to back that up. OU are well respected, but as with any distance learning you are expected - required in fact - to do a lot of the work yourself, find placements, etc, as there is limited classroom time. If you already have a lot of what is required by the course then you just have less work to do, that is where your tutor would come in, it is their job to work with you to find out how good you are. Of course if he can get sponsorship fom his employer than take that route every time, aside from it costing him less it shows his employer is seriously placing value in him. I assumed that he couldn't get that though. :~
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
Thanks for the replies :) I could do it here in malta, but i dont have enough qualification to enter at the moment, i only have a first diploma and National diploma in IT and currently studying for microsoft certified Application developer course, i was thinking of spending 2 years working gaining abit more industry expierence and at 23 ( which is the mature student age) I apply, That way i won't have any problems with applying, becuase i would have knowledge of certain things and industry expierence. The thing is altough they do good theory here, compared to other universites they still use old stuff like pascal which i dont want to touch something so absolete hehe, At least they do C and Java. Im re-doring math on my own at the moment so it could help me in 2 years time. Do you think a company can give you a day or two off a week just for lectures? I don't think they can, or at least here. Well i'll ask. Always trust your techno lust
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Hey everyone, Im a 21 year old male :), I currently work as a C# developer, but i feel like i miss something, which is a university Degree, i know its gonna help me alot in my career.Does anyone know a very good on-line degree program, those sort of "study by yourself at home and get degree after"? Or any good Universities around the world which has good IT courses? I really would like to start. Thanks and Regards, Luke Always trust your techno lust
Luke, You may want to look at American College of Computer and Information Sciences[^]. They are 100% online and will also take students from anywhere. IIRC, they will also award credits for prior studies and life experience. Good luck to you in your search!
Paul Lyons, CCPL
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Hey everyone, Im a 21 year old male :), I currently work as a C# developer, but i feel like i miss something, which is a university Degree, i know its gonna help me alot in my career.Does anyone know a very good on-line degree program, those sort of "study by yourself at home and get degree after"? Or any good Universities around the world which has good IT courses? I really would like to start. Thanks and Regards, Luke Always trust your techno lust
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hmm they all seem good ideas, thanks everyone i'll check them out, The thing im afraid of about online degree courses is that if you have any problems you can't ask anyone except for forums and stuff. I know everyone learns from mistakes and errors but it would be much more of aid if there was an individual(lecturer) that you can ask questions too. But on the other hand websites like codeproject and other similiar ones can help any kiddie develop his skills to professional ones.So I'm sure i can manage to do it. I Just hope i'll find the right one. Man I can't wait to expierence some complex uni stuff :) hehe :-D :) Always trust your techno lust
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hmm they all seem good ideas, thanks everyone i'll check them out, The thing im afraid of about online degree courses is that if you have any problems you can't ask anyone except for forums and stuff. I know everyone learns from mistakes and errors but it would be much more of aid if there was an individual(lecturer) that you can ask questions too. But on the other hand websites like codeproject and other similiar ones can help any kiddie develop his skills to professional ones.So I'm sure i can manage to do it. I Just hope i'll find the right one. Man I can't wait to expierence some complex uni stuff :) hehe :-D :) Always trust your techno lust
When I started my BSc with UNISA there wasn't online support. (I had never even heard of the Internet) I didn't have a PC and I didn't know anyone else who had or worked with computers. Everything (materials, assignments, queries, etc) happened by snail mail (and apparently SA has some of the slowest snails in the world ) In my second year I had a COBOL programming assigment which had to be submitted, by mail, on mark sense cards, compiled (and run, if I got a clean compile) by UNISA staff and then the error listings/output was returned by mail. The turnaround for one coding attempt and response was a little over a month. In the entire academic year I got a total of 4 attempts. (Fortunaltely it compiled on the 4th attempt and produced perfect results - but I lost points on that assignment for only submitting one set of test data! :( ) I'm sure at least some of the online Unis will offer email communication with lecturers but even if they don't I think you'll manage with only university forums, other online communities like CP and all the information available on the Web to help you out. Steve T