Planning a career...

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Of course I mentioned a degree as the main route, not the only route, I know many VB programmers that do not have degrees, are not especially good at maths and still have successful careers. I am unable to reccomend this as the main course of action, in general I think an engineering/science degree is a good investment if you are serious about it.

To take part on more hard core projects a computer science, physics, maths or engineering background will pay dividends.

 

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This is very true. I attribute most of my early success in programming to the fact that I did a couple of years of electrical engineering degree courses. The combination of low-level programming allied to knowledge of electronics seemed to be unusual, and I got lots of work in that area!

Harry.

 

Thanks for all of these responses, they have been really helpful!

 

I did a HND in Business computing at Uni which required me to do extra maths, because I never got any GCSEs above a D at school. Fortunatley I had a GNVQ in IT which helped.

Do not think about money as this is what I did and I was searching for jobs for years. Basically I was thinking that I should be on 22k and anything lower would devalue the studying I had done.

Not everyone who leaves uni gets a well paid job and unfortunately IT was well paid years ago (.com boom) but not anymore.

 

I see your point, IT is an industry where there is a constant learning path and the more the IT guy/gal learns and improves then so will the money.

 

This really depends on what your concept of web design is. A web developer is not the same thing as a web designer or a multimedia designer. I should know - I am a web developer. In our role we simply make sure that the website is fully functional, deal with back-end database content and write web-based software. A designer will make our front-end jazzy.

 

Yeap! mine required Science, Maths and English GCSE C or above, A level Maths and a Science.
However, I did a BTEC in Electronics and Electrical Engineering which as you can imagine covers a lot of physics and maths , which got me in. I didn't want to go to uni at first but changed my mind at the end of my course. If i had known i was going i would have done A levels.

I went into software development as a career and hated it. I quit my first job.

Andi

 

I was at Reading when they were forth, there not even in the top ten by the looks of it.
Brunel always used to be high, cant see that one either.

Univ Coll London - my tutor and lecturer from Reading lecturers comp sci there now

Imperial College - thats a good uni to look at, if i done another degree thats where i would like to go.

AC

 

I don't know where they get their figures from, so like I said, do your own research !