Most of the positions I apply for would involve knowledge of sysadmin work and, rarely, web developer work. As you can likely tell, my position is not as the sysadmin or web developer, but rather as the manager under whom these positions work.
Yes, that’s a little different. IT frequently doesn’t entail a lot of coding by hand. There’s a lot of copying and pasting code from scripts you come across, and then editing the code to get it to run properly on your system. An introductory course in computer science will help with that, but some of the more advanced stuff you’ll encounter will simply never come up. What you really need is basic familiarity with a wide variety of different frameworks; how to browse through them to find what you’re looking for. The hard part isn’t knowing how to solve the problem; it’s knowing where to look to find the problem. On the web development side, you will want to see what content management system your company is using and learn how that CMS functions. You can use builtwith.com to figure it out if you don’t already know. For each language or framework, make sure you focus on just the basics before moving onto a new one. If you try to go in-depth with all of them you’re never going to get through it all. When you have to do something in that language, just open up a cheat sheet for it, and use that to guide you.
Thank you kindly for the break down.
Most of the positions I apply for would involve knowledge of sysadmin work and, rarely, web developer work. As you can likely tell, my position is not as the sysadmin or web developer, but rather as the manager under whom these positions work.
Yes, that’s a little different. IT frequently doesn’t entail a lot of coding by hand. There’s a lot of copying and pasting code from scripts you come across, and then editing the code to get it to run properly on your system. An introductory course in computer science will help with that, but some of the more advanced stuff you’ll encounter will simply never come up. What you really need is basic familiarity with a wide variety of different frameworks; how to browse through them to find what you’re looking for. The hard part isn’t knowing how to solve the problem; it’s knowing where to look to find the problem. On the web development side, you will want to see what content management system your company is using and learn how that CMS functions. You can use builtwith.com to figure it out if you don’t already know. For each language or framework, make sure you focus on just the basics before moving onto a new one. If you try to go in-depth with all of them you’re never going to get through it all. When you have to do something in that language, just open up a cheat sheet for it, and use that to guide you.
I see. Thank you for the explanation and the link.