WDN wrote:Ed wrote:lol we did dida too, it was s**t and i basicly did NOTHING for 2 years and still got 2 C's out of it.
DIDA was just one of thoes things that if you actually tried you can do really well, or just do noting and scrape through.
Make sure you check out the IT A-level you do, there is unliklly to be programming though, if you like programming, you can learn that yourself.
Look at microsoft Visual basic, they have a very basic programming consol and they have online tutoials that you can work through.
True. True.
A level ICT, and infact, the vast majority of ICT at school/6th form sucked. I've lost count of how many spreadsheets and databases I had to create.
Oh, and having the entire class ignored by the "teacher", that was always a bonus [/sarcasm]
As for programming advice, while at University so far, I have been "taught" C# and C++. In this case, I use the word taught loosely because I knew the languages before attending University. Further, we have learnt Prolog, which is an interesting language to learn, especially for the power of recursion. I wouldn't ever advise anyone to learn Visual Basic though, for a few reasons. Firstly, its not platform independant, and though this may not be an issue, its always good to be able to write portable code. Further, it is a rather loose language, and doesn't teach a lot of programming principles. Rather, it hides a lot from you. Too much.
Joel Spolsky wrote an interesting article about the dangers of Java schools and "easy" languages here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ ... hools.html
True, but if you have never ever programed in your life? Visual Basic will give you a good idea of what it is.
where about are you at Uni atm? I should be doing Computer Science at Hull in september, but im kinda regretting it and I kinda want to do an econmics corse or a Ski instructor corse (not at Uni)
