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College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:56 am
by Shomari
Anyways I'm considering a career in network administration or something of the like. What major should I consider? (My current major is art right now and bleh.) Any and all information regarding this would be helpful. At the current moment I'm attending a community college. What should I be doing/planning, etc?
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:59 am
by SM-Count
Computer science major and take a lot of net classes. Though net admins always start in IT entry jobs.
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:53 pm
by EvGa
Computer science doesn't seem like the correct direction if all he wants is system admin? My CS degree doesn't require a single thing related to admin/security/etc. My IT minor (which is also offered as a more in-depth major) is full of system admin, network admin, security, database etc classes that would be perfect.
Edit: **Missed your bit about "take a lot of net classes". (Idk how, it's one sentence...) I could see that working well. CS + admin electives, or in the case they require a minor, do an IT/Admin minor.
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:29 pm
by Grandpa
CIS Degree and CCNA industry certification is offered at the community college level.
Here's a link to a local (Washington State) community college that offers that path, but it's one of four in WA state and I'm sure there are many other Cisco Academies that offer Associate of Science Professional/Technical degrees and certification pathways.
Whatcom Community, WA State, USA
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:18 pm
by Shomari
all right cool thanks guys.
what are some good resources where I can start learning some of this stuff already?
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:11 am
by SM-Count
What's your programming background?
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:23 pm
by Shomari
SM-Count wrote:What's your programming background?
nada. I'm looking to pick this stuff up.
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:50 pm
by SM-Count
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:17 am
by Shomari
thanks SM 
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:29 am
by Mirosuke
nad?! c'mon, we are from the internet! you should know something! spit it up
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:07 am
by Shomari
Mirosuke wrote:nad?! c'mon, we are from the internet! you should know something! spit it up
Well I'm starting late lol.
Also what are some good IDEs?
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:17 am
by EvGa
For which language?
I like Eclipse for c++ and java. I don't write much code in anything else...
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:45 am
by SM-Count
eclipse with pydev plugin is good for beginners, if you're serious about cs you should learn vim, makes coding a lot faster, I'll even give you my vimrc.
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:27 am
by Shomari
SM-Count wrote:eclipse with pydev plugin is good for beginners, if you're serious about cs you should learn vim, makes coding a lot faster, I'll even give you my vimrc.
I'll try both out.
And that vimrc would be helpful.
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:29 am
by SM-Count
For the latest gvim, you'll also need wombat.vim in your colors folder under vimfiles:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1778vimrc:
http://www.mediafire.com/?12a2setlt1z76o7
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:52 am
by Shomari
thanks SM
and lol at the undo levels.
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:46 am
by KillAndChill
Could also look into computer engineering. Took a couple of very useful network classes.
I would recommend you learn C first using only a text editor. Once you're good with C, move onto object oriented programming using easymode IDEs.
Re: College Major advice wanted. Now Hiring.
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:30 am
by William-CL
Shomari wrote:Anyways I'm considering a career in network administration or something of the like. What major should I consider? (My current major is art right now and bleh.) Any and all information regarding this would be helpful. At the current moment I'm attending a community college. What should I be doing/planning, etc?
Computer Science. No need to go to a 4 year for this, a Community will save you a lot of money + you get more one on one with the Instructor as the classes are smaller.
At the community college I'm in, they have a Major designed specifically around networking in the computer science division. Your best course of action would be to contact a counselor and ask about this.