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Hi

I need a bit of guidance. I want to further my studies in the IT industry. I have done my A+ through Boston City campus. I have worked in the IT industry now for almost 5 years. I would like to study Web development but i am unable to find a place that gives me the right courses or information. I have had a look at IT academy but is it legit? Boston has short courses but i don't think is sufficient. Could someone guide me into the right direction? What institution must i choose to study at? What subject is necessary? I am currently working so night classes will have to work.

Any information will help a lot!! :)
 
I'd get a degree from UNISA or similar if I was in your position. You also need to decide what type of web development you want to do. Will it be linux based / opensource so PHP etc, or will it be Windows based such as ASPX & .NET.
 
I would prefer to do both. Reason for this is then i have more job opportunities. I really like developing websites that is why i want to study it. I have some experience in developing normal sites HTML using Dreamweaver and Joomla sites. But want to start from one end and work myself through.
 
Unisa has a 6 month short course, I speak under correction if I may add. The information on their site about it is detailed enough to understand. I would suggest you visit youtube to get more ideas actually. Very useful material there.
 
If you're looking at a career in web dev I wouldn't bother with getting a qualification. Most companies looking for web devs care mostly about your experience and which frameworks you use.

Get a few text books online and start from there. As said above Youtube is also very very useful.
 
Best is a degree via correspondence. I did mine at UNISA. If you're keen, have a look at the short courses they offer here. Though, some of those courses are covered in undergrad.

Perhaps just do a string of the short courses. Pay attention to these:
- short course: introduction to internet and web design (70076)
- short course : introduction to visual c sharp.net programming (76804)
- short course: developing web applications with php (72095)
- short course: introduction to java programming (70602)
- short course: database design (70041)
- short course: database implementation (7554x)
- short course: information technology in electronic-commerce (itec) (70483)

Best of luck.
 
shauntir said:
Best is a degree via correspondence. I did mine at UNISA. If you're keen, have a look at the short courses they offer here. Though, some of those courses are covered in undergrad.

Perhaps just do a string of the short courses. Pay attention to these:
- short course: introduction to internet and web design (70076)
- short course : introduction to visual c sharp.net programming (76804)
- short course: developing web applications with php (72095)
- short course: introduction to java programming (70602)
- short course: database design (70041)
- short course: database implementation (7554x)
- short course: information technology in electronic-commerce (itec) (70483)

Best of luck.
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The degrees have NOTHING web related in them at UNISA.

The short courses do and you should look at those.

Still overrated, I started here http://www.w3schools.com/

Are you on the WUG Kwagga?
 
koeksGHT said:
The degrees have NOTHING web related in them at UNISA.

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I beg to differ. Define web development first...

Things like database design and implementation are related to web development. How about learning the basics of programming, a core for web development.

The thing is, a degree is meant to give you the knowledge, skills and a foundation upon which you use to build and do things in chosen field. Computer science and information technology underlies web development, operating system design, database development and a whole host of other things.

Hence, a web development is related to computer science and information technology - foundations and teachings of a degree.
 
shauntir said:
I beg to differ. Define web development first...

Things like database design and implementation are related to web development. How about learning the basics of programming, a core for web development.

The thing is, a degree is meant to give you the knowledge, skills and a foundation upon which you use to build and do things in chosen field. Computer science and information technology underlies web development, operating system design, database development and a whole host of other things.

Hence, a web development is related to computer science and information technology - foundations and teachings of a degree.
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Correct about databases, otherwise you really just do c++ and delphi. In a broader sense the degree is a better option however its not actually teaching him what he wants to know and that is HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, MYSQL(databases in general).

From there if you want to go further learn mongodb and node.js

The question is what does he want to do
 
Have been learning node and mongo. Though I see that there is a criteria that needs to be applied to a project before embarking on the "MEAN" stack.

The use cases seem a lot smaller than traditional web dev (relational databases and using multiple threads). I don't see how some people seem to want to use node and mongo for every singe project now days :confused:

In fact, going to start a thread about that.
 
Thank you everyone for your information. What i want to be be doing is Web programmer i want to learn the languages that can code a web application and send and receive data to the database and back. Im really not bothered to make a website pretty, i would rather make it have more functions. To make a normal HTML website you can learn from google. I hope that you guys understand what im trying to say. I am currently working for a company that develop its own software in Delphi and using firebird database. They are teaching me a lot with SQL and so on but not what i want. I have looked at a Diploma in Information Technology but it only stats Introduction to Web design. It doesn't say which languages or anything. I don't want to waste time studying at Unisa if it is not going to give me what i want.
 
Ok iv spoken to one of the guys that i work with. He said i must start with Visual Basic.net and from there i can expand to other languages like php, C# and C++ and so on. I must first get a foundation then i can build the walls. Unisa has a short course for it. Do you guys agree?
 
KwaggaZA said:
Ok iv spoken to one of the guys that i work with. He said i must start with Visual Basic.net and from there i can expand to other languages like php, C# and C++ and so on. I must first get a foundation then i can build the walls. Unisa has a short course for it. Do you guys agree?
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Start C#, VB.NEt is the work of the devil.
 
KwaggaZA said:
I would prefer to do both. Reason for this is then i have more job opportunities. I really like developing websites that is why i want to study it. I have some experience in developing normal sites HTML using Dreamweaver and Joomla sites. But want to start from one end and work myself through.
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A degree will help you get the interviews but its your portfolio that lands the job. A UNISA degree is a long term commitment and you will only start benefiting from the studies after 3 years, a short course will kickstart your career in the beginning.

I'm a web-dev & UNISA student so talking from experience.
 
KwaggaZA said:
Ok iv spoken to one of the guys that i work with. He said i must start with Visual Basic.net and from there i can expand to other languages like php, C# and C++ and so on. I must first get a foundation then i can build the walls. Unisa has a short course for it. Do you guys agree?
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I agree with shauntir. VB.Net is not a foundation. It is sand. Very hard to build on it.

I am pretty convinced anybody starting our with VB.Net at this stage does permanent damage to their CV. Some VB on a CV 10-ish years ago is all good and fine, since that is before C# became mainstream. But starting out with VB.Net now is not.
 
Thanks guys. As soon as i can register for the next semester by Unisa i will register for the short course for C#.
 
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