₦airaland Forum

Yield: Single.

codeaddict: Well, some of us don't watch football,

So by entire season, how many home | away matches are allowed for each team?
And, does half season mean half of the total number of away & home matches scheduled?

Anvaller: Alright guys, I have seen different opinions here. All I have to say is that the guys that are of the opinion that studying comp sci is significantly inconsequential to pursuing a career in IT are more accurate in their opinion than the others. I.T is not only about coding and coding, there are alot of other path u can take without actually knowing how to code. Although its always easier if u have "some" coding skills. Even at that, u do not need to go to a university to know how to code.

My background is agriculture, then I flipped over to business and then maneuvered to computer programming without prior computer education. Now I am an application integration developer a part of IT where ppl are running away from because its very technical skills demanding. The question is if comp sci or whatever is relevant, why am I able to learn and function in this area? How am I even getting to work on these projects in the 1st place without any degree in computer science? Well answer is, the degrees are irrelevant. No potential client ever asked me did u study comp sci? In fact, my business qualification seem to be more relevant and respected even though the job is about programming.

The most important factor that determines whether u will get a programming job in I.T or not is ur ability to show that u have worked on similar project before, in fact, that is all a client wants to see, they dont want to see ur degree cos they know ur degree means nothing they only want to know that u have a sufficiently high level of education. U don't believe me? Go to linkedin right now and start looking at profiles of I.T professionals and look at what they studied in the university, look across guys from Europe and America

Now please note that I am not talking from the Nigerian perspective, I don't know whether Nigerian employers place importance on comp sci.

However, it is not all that easy to just learn some computer skills and start looking for job, U can only get a job by gaining experience as an intern in an I.T consulting firm. So this will enable u to reference the hands on skills u acquired from the company where u interned when u are applying for a job elsewhere.

I hope my contribution would help some that are interested in a career in IT but losing hope cos they are not currently studying comp science. If u have ability to comprehend complex logic , may be u can go for it. If u are one that hates logic and constantly solving technical problems, forget about IT even if u are currently studying computer science, unless ur ambition is to become a functional consultant which is not bad too but u can't earn as much as a technical guy.

Kei144: This is stupidity at highest level. Private university students pay through their noses in order to get education. When they graduate, people look down on their certificates. And the only thing they gain, which is absence of strikes, the privileged public university NANS wants to take that one away from them.

University students are not the only youths in this country, just as ASUU are not the only workers in this country. If every youth in Nigeria begins to demand for government-subsidized university education as their rights and every worker in this country begins to do like ASUU, this country will become hell.

Gregdcutie: so instead of us all making concerted efforts to salvage NIGERIA we all should be saving our tribe. #Fact no tribe will survive this much anticipated revolution so in the end nothing would have been worth saving.