Who here has a formal IT qualification?

[ThomasSoerensen]

Did you have one of those flowchart templates? Gave mine to a geeky friend for his birthday!

I had that one.

[lightng]

'O' level in Computer Studies. Degree in Accounting and Finance.

Would have studied CS at uni but there seemed to be a distinct lack international tottie on that course. Damn my teenage hormones.

[XLMonkey]

GCSE Computer Studies, followed by years of nothing but actually building applications and rolling them out, then the old CITP thing, which proved to be completely pointless.

I gave up actually doing IT in 2003 - it seemed too much like hard work.

[suityou01]

GCSE Computer Studies, followed by years of nothing but actually building applications and rolling them out, then the old CITP thing, which proved to be completely pointless.

I gave up actually doing IT in 2003 - it seemed too much like hard work.

With all that development experience you'd make a cracking business analyst

[Olly]

BSc Hons Computer Science from what the Times ranked as 5th best in the country for the subject at the time.

Played it a bit truth be told, because of how it was graded, your top 8 modules get 3 times weighting, then next 8 a weighting of two followed by your worst 8.

I worked my socks off at the ones I was good at and neglected the others. Narrowly missed a first, I dread to think how many people could get good grades at uni if they put a bit of effort in

Since then I started an OU MSc but it was tedious and pretty out of date, as soon as IBM stopped picking up the tab for the modules I dropped it pronto.

[Lockhouse]

I've got a TOPS COBOL programming certificate from 1983.

[Sysman]

'O' level in Computer Studies. Degree in Accounting and Finance.

Would have studied CS at uni but there seemed to be a distinct lack international tottie on that course. Damn my teenage hormones.

Maths because I enjoyed it. Didn't do CS because the only places doing it at the time were renowned for their lack of totty.

[NotAllThere]

Forgot about my o-level Computer Studies. Kind of over-shadowed by my degree in Maths and Computing. I worked for a technical manager, by the name of Tulip, who had a botany degree. Tulip by name, tulip by nature...

[Wilmslow]

The BCS Foundation Certificate in software testing, no less, around 2001. Since got the certificate re-written as ISTQ.

I actually did the intermediate in 20 minutes in a prometric centre with no training, which shows either I have been testing for too long, or the exam is a mockery!

[EternalOptimist]

they didnt have IT when I were a lad.
But i got a degree in Electronics (valve stuff) and then another in History when I was 30.

i am most proud of my Bootle school leavers (grade 3) in metalwork. I had to make holes in a bit of steel with different types of file