Reply to: Need some advice

[mudskipper]

But isn't coding more about patterns than arithmetic?

I've always found sudoku deathly boring, and I'm not a bad coder (although no doubt everyone thinks they aren't)

Sudoku isn't arithmetic. It's a logic puzzle - would work equally well with symbols.
I think the sort of person who enjoys logic puzzles like sudoku is likely to be the sort of person who enjoys coding.

As with most sweeping generalisations, there will be many, many exceptions!

[OwlHoot]

The Sudoku test:

If you like doing sudokus (and mostly get them right) you'll make a great coder.

But isn't coding more about patterns than arithmetic?

I've always found sudoku deathly boring, and I'm not a bad coder (although no doubt everyone thinks they aren't)

[escapeUK]

A cousin of mine is faculty head of ICT for a secondary school and she'd like me to talk to the higher computing class about the IT industry. What jobs and skills are required, what are the prospects (), what direction they should be heading in etc.

How well would it go down when you tell them that everything they are learning hasnt been used for the last 10+ years.

Personally id suggest them to forget IT and focus on manual skilled work, such as electrician, plumber, things like that. Skills that will always be needed, can be paid in cash, cant be offshored and dont required learning the latest bulltulip from microsoft that is several times slower than the previous bulltulip and will be dropped in a years time anyway for the next round of even slower bulltulip.

That does sound quite bitter doesnt it, and I have earned a good living in IT and an excellent living contracting.

[Paddy]

And if you like doing Killer Sudoku, then you'll make a great software architect.

and if you cheat, you'll make a great IT recruitment consultant

[SupremeSpod]

#1 technology moves so fast, it's daft to focus upon technology. By the time you get the experience, it will be redundant

#2 Therefore concentrate on transferrable skills. Maths, logic, Business skills

#3 or concentrate on associated functions that are indespensible, law, accountancy etc

#4 suss out where the upper sixth girlies hang out...

Ftfy

[ctdctd]

And if you like doing Killer Sudoku, then you'll make a great software architect.

And if you like filling in the pretty squares with coloured pens AND you like to highlight the squares as well, may I suggest Project Management may be your calling?

[NotAllThere]

The Sudoku test:

If you like doing sudokus (and mostly get them right) you'll make a great coder.

And if you like doing Killer Sudoku, then you'll make a great software architect.

[Cliphead]

Are you actually allowed within 500 metres of a school, you humourless ?

Humour? Just thread pollution.

Now be a good chap and just fck off and die quietly somewhere.

[MarillionFan]

The expected fckwit drivel.

Are you actually allowed within 500 metres of a school, you humourless ?

[Cliphead]

I think you should do it all while playing the guitar and winking suggestively at one or more of the female teachers. That's what I imagine you doing, anyway.

I never pass up an opportunity.

[Cliphead]

#1 technology moves so fast, it's daft to focus upon technology. By the time you get the experience, it will be redundant

#2 Therefore concentrate on transferrable skills. Maths, logic, Business skills

#3 or concentrate on associated functions that are indespensible, law, accountancy etc

Perfect.

[mudskipper]

I think you should do it all while playing the guitar and winking suggestively at one or more of the female students. That's what I imagine you doing, anyway.

FTFY

[Cliphead]

The Sudoku test:

If you like doing sudokus (and mostly get them right) you'll make a great coder.

Ooh good one.

[Cliphead]

Don't worry about things like technology or business skills, just apply for Big Brother or shows like X-Factor where you can become an immediate celebrity with no hard work whatsoever.

By the way, did I mention I have an X-Factor style recording studio.

The expected fckwit drivel.

[mudskipper]

The Sudoku test:

If you like doing sudokus (and mostly get them right) you'll make a great coder.