sec: unclassified - CCNA vs 'traditional' study at college

Karun Dambiec karun at dambiec.com
Wed Oct 31 20:37:34 EST 2001


Ellis, Peter R. wrote:

>Karun, (and others)
>
>I have seen reference in your postings to the Cisco course (CCNA) at
>College.
>
>My son, David, is going to Hawker College next year for years 11/12. It has
>a similar Cisco scheme there, but he is (or is it I am) somewhat confused as
>to the usefulness of the Cisco 'major' versus doing more 'traditional' IT
>subjects best summarised as "programming languages" and "systems analysis",
>when looking at going on to university study in IT. 
>
>He is about 7-10 days from an enrollment interview to nominate his subjects.
>
>
>Please comment on your understandings and feelings about this.
>(Anyone else with an opinion? But... please keep opinions to under 300 lines
>and/or 5,000 words.....)
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
I also suggest choosing subjects, which you generally will do well in, 
even if they are not related to your choice of career(e.g im doing 
photography and plan to work in IT)

Karun Dambiec






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