Ask the Geeks (code collaboration)...

Originally Posted by Holdup

Why is it that i should know about this stuff but every time i read what you are on about it baffles me? doesnt college teach me anything now days? tsssk

It could well be nothing to do with your college. I tend to have that effect on lots of people.

In person, I'm not that geeky, honest.

If your college course is anything like mine (A-Level Computing), you'll be focusing on the history, and programatic theory. If then you go on to do a BSc in Soft. Eng (like I did), it goes even further into the theory and gets more specific with hardware.

The stuff in this thread, as lazymanc said, is just a bunch of software. It's something that you learn over time due to needing to do x, y and z.

Yea im doin "BTEC National Diploma For IT Practitioners" level 3 course ill pick it up 1 month to go "yay and gulp" sorry to go off topic

[lazymanc]

Originally Posted by Holdup

Yea im doin "BTEC National Diploma For IT Practitioners" level 3 course ill pick it up 1 month to go "yay and gulp" sorry to go off topic

Cool, is it software development or more systems admin?

More like useless tosh, although i am learnng about networking atm which i find quite intresting

[lazymanc]

Stick with it, a good foundation of technical understanding goes a long way when you're learning more advanced concepts.

Don't be too disheartened if you feel your tuition isn't directly applicable to the commercial world, higher education is about learning the concepts and purpose behind it all rather than getting to a professional level with a particular language or software product.

If you want to be a pro software developer then I'm sure there are a couple of folks here who can give you advice, although it's probably best saved for another thread.