Just a quick question to see if my assumption is correct or not. I have been taking classes to get an associates .deg. in IT. To put it into perspective college has not exactly given me what I wanted, a little IT and a lot of crap I don't have any use for. How will knowing how the Krebs cycle and neutron transport chain make ATP for Animal cells help me in IT? thats another argument. It started when he kept saying that he would not burn copies of movies because he was a programer for a local electirc company[I doubt this, more like a baby sitter for thier existing programs] and his programming job could be in jepordy if he was caught. The question is this. I was at a get together and there is a family member who went to Vatterot and after getting a cert. went to work for a local electric company, he says writing programs. I doubt this very much and think he is more of a baby sitter for their system but that is not the point. He started to get a bit testy about my comment that I felt that I wanted to go to a vatterot type institution but the credits are not transferable to any college, not accredited. He got upset I guess thinking this was a slam and started in about how degrees don't matter and its only what you know and how even people who have been coding are behind because of how fast the IT world moves [I so bad wanted to ask if this meant that having been out of class for three years meant that he was obsolete?] but I did not want to start an argument. He went into how the world of IT was B&B I think he meant Business to business, and unless you were working with old spaghetti codes that you were obsolete. I thought spaghetti code was any code new or old that was over complicated with too many go to modals. I did not want to correct him as I was not sure, but when people start to throw out a lot of mumbo jumbo it usually means that they are unsure of themselves but want to desperately project the idea of how much they know. Any thoughts would be helpful.
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I guess what I was asking is that with my limited knowledge of the computer languages, I am not real familiar with any particular language as of yet, he was saying that people who have been in the business for several years are behind, I did not want to argue as I did not know but how are these languages of C C+ ect dead or putting people behind, and that he was throwing out bull to make it look like he was somehow big man on campus.
His spaghetti code remark that it was an old language was bull also if I am correct, that’s not a language but as far as I know its an over complicated written program. I am not far enough along to argue when bull is being thrown, but when he said band b is the big thing, I thought Bed and
breakfast? I think you mean b to b. But again maybe he knew of some band b applications I was not familiar with. Just trying to see if I was correct in my idea that he was throwing BS.
I think he got upset when I was talking about how I made a decision to go to a college for IT and weighed it against the certificate Vatterott school he went to he said its what you know not getting some associate degree and I responded with the problem is that there are people in this economy that have been in IT for twenty years looking for work that we have to go against, he said but they are not keeping up. Whatever that means. I wanted to say, so you have been out for three years so does that mean you are behind. I am almost sure he is throwing BS.
I guess what I was asking is that with my limited knowledge of the computer languages, I am not real familiar with any particular language as of yet, he was saying that people who have been in the business for several years are behind, I did not want to argue as I did not know but how are these languages of C C+ ect dead or putting people behind, and that he was throwing out bull to make it look like he was somehow big man on campus.
His spaghetti code remark that it was an old language was bull also if I am correct, that’s not a language but as far as I know its an over complicated written program. I am not far enough along to argue when bull is being thrown, but when he said band b is the big thing, I thought Bed and
breakfast? I think you mean b to b. But again maybe he knew of some band b applications I was not familiar with. Just trying to see if I was correct in my idea that he was throwing BS.
I think he got upset when I was talking about how I made a decision to go to a college for IT and weighed it against the certificate Vatterott school he went to he said its what you know not getting some associate degree and I responded with the problem is that there are people in this economy that have been in IT for twenty years looking for work that we have to go against, he said but they are not keeping up. Whatever that means. I wanted to say, so you have been out for three years so does that mean you are behind. I am almost sure he is throwing BS.