Which one to choose?

[Olly]

Unless you want to focus on the stuff in the second course I'd choose the first. No doubt a better intellectual workout and more respected as a result.

If you see in web development, games, marketing and all that jazz as your future then sounds like the second course is for you
OR
You want to be a Network bod (which isn't the pinacle of IT)

# Business Systems Analysis
# Database Techniques

In the second course sound like good ones though and I didn't see them in the CS course

P.S. what A level grades are 160 UCAS points?

[TheBigYinJames]

What bloody language was that supposed to be? If you're a product of a university education then you're hardly an advert!

Shhh, the more universities spew out illiterates the longer our careers will be

[Churchill]

Shhh, the more universities spew out illiterates the longer our careers will be

Sorry

[The Wikir Man]

An IT or Comp Sci degree doesn't necessarily help or hinder you if you want a career in that area - if you have the aptitute then you can cross-skill easily.

I did management as a degree, then became a consultant (mainly technical). As long as you have the aptitude to be a techie, it's easy enough - I always reckoned I could teach PL/SQL, SQL and Oracle tools to anyone with the right aptitude, but teaching someone to be a decent consultant or business person is a completely different matter.

Of the two, I'd do Comp Sci if that's really where you want to be going. That said, if I could do it again I would have specialized in law rather than the path I chose. My daughter (althoguh she is only 6) keeps saying that she wants to work with computers and I keep trying to diplomatically steer her anywhere else.

[The Wikir Man]

Shhh, the more universities spew out illiterates the longer our careers will be

Kan u do a dgree in txt spk yet?

[Ravello]

The top one looks the better of the two you've posted, the same Uni also offer this course, which would probably earn you a better paid career...

edit: the link was supposed to be to this page which wasn't abundantly clear, though it looks like Wiki man found it ok

[The Wikir Man]

The top one looks the better of the two you've posted, the same Uni also offer this course, which would probably earn you a better paid career...

Now that looks interesting. Mate of mine works at NHTCU - very rewarding but he says you see some really nasty things as well.

[Scary]

If you see in web development, games, marketing and all that jazz as your future then sounds like the second course is for you

Game development is *very* technical. Maths intensive and programming to the metal. It's hard to get into, has long hours, crazy crunch times and generally pays worse than the bog standard database work you could get with the same qualifications. I was thinking about it at one point, but ended up writing financial software instead.

[Scary]

An IT or Comp Sci degree doesn't necessarily help or hinder you if you want a career in that area - if you have the aptitute then you can cross-skill easily.

To get the broad base of knowledge necessary to work in software development you don't need a Comp Sci degree, but if you don't have one you will need to have a strong interest in the subject area and do a lot of reading/personal projects in your own time.

[Olly]

Game development is *very* technical. Maths intensive and programming to the metal. It's hard to get into, has long hours, crazy crunch times and generally pays worse than the bog standard database work you could get with the same qualifications. I was thinking about it at one point, but ended up writing financial software instead.

yes I appreciate that, though these days I do wonder how "toolkitted" and "libraried" it may have become?
games require a complement of staff and all that digital design and stuff mentioned in the second course probably wouldn't go amiss.