On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Don Manganar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As for your lack of a personal computer, I've had classmates who are way > better than me as programmers who had the same problem as ypu. Though I > cannot speak of how much of an obstacle it would be now, 10years after I > first took up Computer Science, to not own a computer when you are taking up > a computer science course. I would suspect it would make a world of a > difference if you had direct access one. Owning a pc makes a ton of difference while studying computer science. I didn't have one in college and I used to just jot down my code in paper and then try the code out during lab time (or in internet cafes). It's sometimes sad to write your code on paper thinking that say an array would be able to do certain things only to find out during lab time that it doesn't. But I made it just fine throughout college. Marion, when the time comes that you have your own PC, I suggest you try to also explore the world of SAP and business applications. The SAP Developer Network (https://www.sdn.sap.com/) or SDN have long changed their membership rules to allow non-SAP customers to register. You only need an email address. They have trial versions of some of their products ( https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/downloads) that you can install on a PC. Try to learn ABAP (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-downloads) and ABAP+Java. SAP projects are kicking arse here in my company (Cebu) in terms of growth. Of course, they estimate that the BPO/Call Center projects will grow exponentially and will soon be bigger than us in ITO/Solutions in terms of head count, but that's just beside the point. To manage your expectations, by the time you graduate I expect the company where I'm working now to have two locations here in Cebu, one in Cebu Business Park (current location) for Solutions/ITO and another one in the Asiatown IT Park for the BPO/Call Center. The current location can house 500 people. So if years from now it will just house Solutions people, that's more or less 500 developers in one building. What fun! Hehe... If you fancy Manila the "company" currently houses 8000+ developers in two main locations. What fun to nth power! Thousands of developers in one building. I doubt if any hospital houses that many nurses in one building. :-) Some will be Java, some Cobol, some DB admins, some Testers, but the bulk of the Solutions workforce are SAP developers. So study SAP/ABAP if you can. Add it to your skills. You won't regret it. If you want to just stay in Cagayan de Oro, a big processed pineapple company based in Barangay Bugo employs several SAP developers and network/workstation engineers. Now I know this is a Linux group. But hey, SAP now has been able to run on linux for quite a while now. SDN even has trial versions downloadable if you fancy learning administering a linux box running an SAP application server. But don't ask me how, because I don't know. I'm a developer. Best of luck. -- Carl
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