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What is it, exactly?
And how many schools offer it as a course? Is it a subset of Computer Science?
I am interested, and I want to know.
Please help.
And how many schools offer it as a course? Is it a subset of Computer Science?
I am interested, and I want to know.
Please help.
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not to the extent of something like computer engineering where you're making shit, but have you heard of the "IT" guy?
networking, general computer knowledge, maintenance, installations, etc
i'm honestly not sure to what extent it goes into, other than if you go down the networking route...
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Most likely tech support.
The company I work for has two guys that share the IT load for the company. They manage our servers, our network, our equipment, and they manage e-mail accounts and hosting packages for clients, al a tech support (web company).
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Do I need a bachelors or something?
I see, but what are the requirements for being an "IT" guy?
Sometimes it's used to describe the field containing wide variety of occupations that involve working with information systems (i.e., computers and computing devices). In this sense, any "computer job" would be in the field of Information Technology, whether or not you were a software developer, a system architect, or a guy working at Geek Squad.
When talking about an academic course, IT is generally focused on the installing and maintaining technological and computing infrastructure. This includes things like installing and maintaining networks, databases, various software packages, servers, doing tech support, and so on. IT people do not generally write or design software or hardware, except perhaps the odd bash script or small Perl or Python script to assist in some maintenance task.
Because the things you have to do are heavily dependent on knowledge of particular technologies, IT is seen (educationally) as more vocational and less 'academic' than disciplines like computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, and the like. For example, it would be unusual in a traditional CS curriculum to take a class on "Cisco routers" but this wouldn't be out of place in an IT curriculum. CS focuses on more general principles; a CS curriculum might include a course on networking in which you're exposed to how different protocols (TCP, BGP, etc.) work that are implemented by Cisco (and many other vendors') routers. However, at the end of that course, a CS person will still not know how to install a Cisco router.
Educationally speaking, IT and CS are overlapping disciplines; one is not a subset of the other. As I said, IT is more vocational and focused on infrastructure, CS is more general and focused on the use of computing to solve different kinds of problems.
that's basically what i'm doing, because the "IT" side of the computer world is ridiculously easy to teach yourself
but yeah, just what other people said: IT is a discipline in itself, so you can go to a uni and get a four year degree in IT.
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
IT folks don't make the applications, we support them.
Either CompSci or Computer Engineering could lead to IT.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
So I guess my real question would be: Is IT considered a major? Or can I "specialize" in IT through CS, since they are overlapping disciplines?
I think you should probably finish your regular CompSci degree. Having a good foundation and understanding of computers in that regard will pay off.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
if you have some sort of specialty, like dealing with some weird program in a UNIX environment, and are obviously an uncommon specialty, you can get fast tracked to a ridiculous salary, if that's what you're looking for.
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
This is absolutely true, and it fits well with the Car Mechanic : Mechanical Engineer analogy. While there may be a general perception that a career as a mechanical engineer is more "prestigious" somehow than being a car mechanic, income levels overlap substantially. There are plenty of car mechanics that work on exotic or expensive cars that make six figure salaries and plenty of mechanical engineers making much, much less.
There's also a similarity in terms of upward mobility. There's just so far you can go up the food chain as a mechanic before you have to transition out of that job and into a related one (maybe the owner of a chain of repair shops) to move higher. CS and Engineering positions, in some firms, generally have a higher ceiling - you can move up further in that career path before transitioning to another one (e.g., management). For example, many firms have Vice President-level engineering jobs ("Senior Scientist" or "Chief Architect" would be a job like this) that are not in a traditional 'management' career path.
I always figured it was supposed to be the other way around.
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