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

[Karun Dambiec]

The main reason im doing it is I do well in the subject. Im also doing 
IT as well the CNAP.

Karun Dambiec

jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:

>Peter,
>  when I was in yr11 at school my father recommended that I should do a
>Novell networking course.  I dimly recall he may have even offered to
>pay for it.
>
>Somehow I never found the effort to pursue it further, and spent all my
>time trying to write arcade games in QuickBasic (there.  my dirty secret
>is out). I haven't programmed basic since I left school but I still
>think I made the better choice at the time.
>
>Ditto later when everyone was doing the trendy thing and getting their
>MCP.  
>
>The things I feel left out on are things like program design and system
>architecture, because sometimes you don't even realise that such things
>exist until you stumble across the right mailing lists and start
>wondering what capabilities are.
>
>The only experience I have had with CISCO gear was when we got a CISCO
>router secondhand and in an afternoon we had broken into it and
>reconfigured it using our 'generic brand' network training.  This may
>not be a complete intro to CISCO.  I know if I had to run a room full of
>CISCOs I would want the training course, but the company you are with
>will pay for that as necessary.
>
>To illustrate Karun's point a bit more dramatically, only one of the
>eight people in the room where I work has an IT degree.
>
>
>
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>On 31 Oct, 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
>>
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