Please Help Me Choose a Computer Class in NYC

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I want to take a few computer programming classes to brush up on my computer skills and to lay the groundwork for a backup career in case I get sick of my current one.

I’m thinking of taking a couple classes in “object-oriented programming.” It sounds interesting, but is it marketable? What else could I take?

Also, what schools in Manhattan are good? Has anyone heard of the “Globe Institute of Technology”?

Thanks in advance!!

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OOP is a very good idea. C++ or Java are popular now. But MS C# will likely catch on quickly (sigh).

There are 3 kinds of classes: regular accredited college classes, classes geared toward a cert., and money stealing quacks.

There is a cert. for Java but no one cares about it. No major cert. for C++, so that guts the middle category for the most part. That leaves the first category as worth your money.

So stick to real colleges.

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Well, “Globe” is an accredited, degree-granting institution. But it obviously ain’t Harvard.

As long as the school is accredited, am I safe from “quacks”?

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Most likely, if it’s accredited by the same institutions that accredit places that Harvard. Can you put a link to their curriculum? I’ll give you my opinion on which classes are OK.

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Here’s what I found online:

Also, they don’t seem to give BS degrees - instead, it’s a “B.Tech.” whatever that means.

Thanks again.

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Huh…I went looking at their website, and they don’t seem to make it easy to get course descriptions. Anyway, object-oriented programming is the latest and greatest way to do things, and if you’re going into technology, you have to know about it. Beyond that, learning about relational databases is a great idea–that’ll put you ahead of a lot of people.

What else? Well, there are a lot of particular technologies, and I have no idea what’ll be hot in the next five minutes. Learn the theory behind the technologies, so you can pick up new ones quickly. Learn the basics of how hardware works, and how programs look after they’re compiled. Learn some math–that makes the theory easier. Learn how to write well–that sets you shoulders above the other engineers.