Anyone here have any experience with Chubb Institute Computer instruction? I’m thinking of taking a 10-month course.
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Here is a message board discussion of the Chubb Institute in NJ. It’s not all good apparently re attendees opinions. Don’t know if the VA one is different.
[sub]Oh good, somebody finally posted something useful, freeing me up to add a smart-ass comment[/sub]
Chubb Institute? Isn’t that where they did the research on Viagra?
Thanks, Astro for the link.
Thanks, Knead for the other input.
I’m surprised no-one’s provided a link to the Show-ers vs. Growers penis comparison thread! 
The Chubb Institute is a good place to go if you don’t have much exposure to computers and want to get your foot in the door of the IT industry.
Last I checked, Chubb offers basically four programs. The first one (I forget what its called) is basically to get you trained to be a worker at a helpdesk. This program is no good at all (its also the most popular course), and most of the people that take it aren’t really that serious about learning anything.
The second program is a 9-month course for networking. What they teach you is decent, but you’ll have to do some studying on your own after you finish the class if you want to become an MCSE or get your A+ certification.
The third program is a 6-month course which is basically an introduction to programming (each month is a different language). They start you out with stuff like flowcharting, then two months of mainframe stuff (COBOL II, MicroFocus and DB2), then a month of Oracle, a month of C++, a month of VB and finally a month of ASP/JavaScript/HTML. Its a good way to introduce yourself to programming and get a feel for different languages. Like the networking program, though, you’ll probably have to have further training (though a lot of places will offer you on the job training) if you are going to work as a programmer.
Finally, there is the Top Gun program. You have to apply to that one (for the other programs, you just go in and talk to a sales rep and take a pretty easy standardized test) and they don’t let a lot of people into it…I think you have to have some prior experience, or at least a computer science degree. If you get in, its a great program and definitely worth the time. You don’t have to pay for the class (I think tuition for the other three programs is about 10,000 dollars) and after you are done with the 3 month program you work as a consultant for Chubb, meaning that you are guaranteed a job. Even though its the shortest of the four programs, this one will teach you the most (it focuses mostly on programming).
Classes at Chubb for the first three programs are 5 hours long, 5 days a week. The Top Gun program is 8 hours a day. They also give you a lot of take home work, and the books that they give you are decent (but not great…they write their own stuff so its not as good as some of the other books you could pick up on your own)