Here I am, munching my way through a big pack of Tangfastics and browsing the Open University website. I’m considering finishing up my degree through the OU and I find myself actually getting quite excited about some of the component courses required for the Information Technology and Computing degree.
Why excited? Well, for starters, I’m a geek. :) Learning more about IT in general is a good thing and my hunger for such knowledge has got me where I am today in terms of my IT skills. Secondly most of these courses would directly help me in my day to day work.
My degree, which I didn’t finish the first time around, is one of the things that I want to get but now I’m in a more stable financial situation I’m also after an MCSE and maybe some Cisco qualifications. I would also like to get some kind of qualifications in Java, although just doing a small training course will probably suffice as OOP is OOP, no matter what language.
Has anyone out there in the blogosphere done any of the above qualifications, or the courses related to them? I’d love to find out what other people think about the relevance of them in practise.