I had a good discussion with David Chao about learning IT at SFSU. Essentially from what I understood, is that IT is too technical in scope for an undergraduate degree in ISYS (Information Systems) at SFSU. An ISYS undergraduate program would be more focused on light application development, such as dragging buttons onto a sheet to design a user interface and maybe connect user interface to a back end database, or some light web programming with something like PHP.
Given that this is only one professor's view and also the fact that he teaches these particular courses, his scope is understandably narrow. I would be curious to explore views from other faculty about Information Systems at San Francisco State University.
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ReplyDeleteI have a totally alternative view on IT as a skill, what it takes to master it and the relative FICO score of entitlement that one shell receive as an IT professional.
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost remember this: IT is elementary. That means it does NOT require superior intellect to absolutely master IT to an inhuman level of godly expertise. The confusion often comes from a fraud principle of assuming that earnings have anything to do with the profession at hand; its complexity and IQ requirements. Let me remind you that a semi-pretty stripper brings home over $100k per year in the bay area.
Although under similar earnings bracket, comparing an IT consultant to a dentist if rankly insulting (to the dentist in case you weren’t sure what I mean). Take a quick survey of the type of demographic attracted to IT and compare it with those who make it through dental school. It is almost a rule that once you identify one as being “in IT consulting” you absolutely have no college degree, lucky to have passed high school and there is a good reason why you couldn’t do better in life.
So in summary, you don’t go to college to learn IT. That you can do in the back alley, on the job, browsing the Internet or any other useless activity to which “learning IT” is auxiliary priority. We go to college to become those who hire and fire IT, those who send IT to India and China; those who see IT as an instrument no different than gardening shovel or a pair of pliers – all part of the larger picture called business!