I went and graduated from Stratford Career Institute in Computer Repair today. I managed to have a 91% for my average, which I believe means I will receive a "Certificate with Honors". Guess I can't call myself a rookie about computers anymore. I just need to take and pass the A++ test up in Edmonton one of these days and I will be completely certified.
I am planning on taking a course in business management next from them as soon as I have the tuition saved up.
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« Reply #2 on: Oct 13, 2007, 09:47:29 am »
congratulations Nathan!
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« Reply #3 on: Oct 13, 2007, 09:48:23 am »
lol SCI website needs a real web developer
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« Reply #4 on: Oct 13, 2007, 09:50:19 am »
plus an update to their course list I was just flicking through the course outline its like looking at computing circa '99 I'm sure their teaching material is up to date but the site certainly isn't!
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« Reply #8 on: Oct 14, 2007, 01:35:08 am »
Go Nathan! Congrats dude.
So now you can help me with some troubleshooting: When I buy a new hard disk, which is twice as big as the old one, it seems to fill up twice as fast.
Oh and I need an answer fast! I know I'm entitled to a fast response. I think I had a big mac some time last year, so that McD sponsored link probably has a little bit of my money in there.
So now you can help me with some troubleshooting: When I buy a new hard disk, which is twice as big as the old one, it seems to fill up twice as fast.
Oh and I need an answer fast! I know I'm entitled to a fast response. I think I had a big mac some time last year, so that McD sponsored link probably has a little bit of my money in there.
he he he... or you will file a complaint with paypal too just like apple2 was threatening of doing?
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« Reply #12 on: Oct 14, 2007, 09:52:57 am »
So shall we test your knowledge Nathan
Don't worry I won't embarrass you with any hard questions that you couldn't answer but out of curiosity in the curriculum it states "Networking fundamentals and the internet & How the internet works"
Now I'm probably going to regret the answer but did you cover anything related to TCP/IP stacks, socket layers or port numbers, header responses, URIs'?
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« Reply #14 on: Oct 14, 2007, 11:26:00 am »
no it wasn't aimed at testing Nathan I'm just curious to what level it was taught I found it odd that a course which seems quite windows centric would suddenly swap into the world of networks and was intrigued if they tried to cover the basics of server architecture and network architecture or just gave a very windows over view, i.e the closest they got to a TCP/IP stack was typing in an IP address? Its a hell of a lot for to use Nathans own terms "rookies" to swap from happy land of GUI and wizards to command lines and lets face it the relatively complex maths behind network architecture. Looking at the course it seems to be roughly equivalent to a NVQ level 1 (taking by all ages, not school based) in the UK system. Network architecture is taught normally at the later end of a Advanced GNVQ (taken by all ages but also taught at schools 16-18yr) or A Level computing (more Computer science like then the NVQs taugh 16-18yrs) level there is a significant gap between the to hence the question.
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« Reply #15 on: Oct 14, 2007, 11:38:57 am »
It's probably limited to the relation between ip-address and subnet masks. I know I had an 'advanced' networking course at IBM and it didn't cover much more then that and the basics on the different protocols used in TCP/IP. The focus was more on how to configure and troubleshoot your systems network connections.