I went to the Milwaukee Area Technical College and go an Associates Degree in Business Data Processing in 1978. To me, that was really a great program. They had a JCL class, two Cobol classes, assembler, PL/1, database, and then the usual stuff like English and basic Math. It was great preparation for being a programmer. Matter of fact, just after I graduated, I was promoted to a junior programmer job after working at Milwaukee County for 3 years as a computer operator. After 8 months of that, the tech support manager asked me if I wanted to work in technical support, so I took that.
I really thing that with a little updating, the curriculem for the program I took was fantastic, and still applicable today. Now, I think they do teach a Cobol class, but most of the stuff is all PC oriented. I did take a Cisco Networking set of 4 classes there, but I decided I didn't want to do Cisco networking. I was impressed with the quality of the teaching at MATC for the Cisco classes. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer 414-475-7434 Milwaukee, Wisconsin ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Tsujimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:45 am Subject: Re: Curiosity To: [email protected]> I fully understand this point of view. After all, when accounting > students graduate, they can immediately use what they learned, > e.g. > balance a corp's books. When a med student graduates, they can > apply what > their learned as well (although, I'd rather be worked on by a > seasoned > doc). But, when a CS person graduates, he/she is better suited to > simply > go on to grad school, or go work for a vendor (e.g. IBM). I'm a > product > of the system (CS puke), but I recognized that I needed marketable > skills > (SNOBOL was fun, but it doesn't pay the bills). So, I went > outside the > university and took classes on BAL, and other like subjects. > Actually, I > got my first job because I had learned Mark IV during my summer job. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
