[newbienoob]

Hey, I have graduated from high school last year. So I'm preparing to go to college but I don't know what courses(?) should I take. I have 2 choices and I don't know which one should I take; Programming(computing) or Systems(?)computing). I really want programming, but for several reasons, I'll have to move it aside. About systems, I don't know what is it. Can anyone tell me what is it? I mean, what will I learn, am I going to learn programming too?

PS: Please, don't say "You're asking 12 year old kid on gaming forum..." or something like that because I'm asking someone who have knowledge about it.

[Coltmaster]

Systems might be to do with hardware. Although it says computing so I have a feeling it is about managing servers and networks, etc.

[newbienoob]

My friend said that 'systems' does include a little bit of programming. But, he wasn't so sure about that.

[coolguy]

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Originally Posted by newbienoob My friend said that 'systems' does include a little bit of programming. But, he wasn't so sure about that.

He probably meant commands like "ipconfig" 'format" etc.

[Vince]

The 'systems' course probably includes lots of electronics courses. You'd have to learn how capacitors, transistors and resistors work, and how to program an IC with assembly. Very hard to grasp if you didn't got prior education in electronics. You'd probably get a little programming too, but it'd be something stupid, like VB.Net.

You'll just have to consult the college's website to see for yourself.

[park4bmx]

Lucky you, in my college there is no specialised course like "programming"
Is some next IT course level 2
And so far no programming at all, my course tutor tells me we going to be doing some "programming" next year.

It's a waist of time the way I see it.

So your lucky, take it if that is what u want to do.

[newbienoob]

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Originally Posted by Vince The 'systems' course probably includes lots of electronics courses. You'd have to learn how capacitors, transistors and resistors work, and how to program an IC with assembly. Very hard to grasp if you didn't got prior education in electronics.

I did learn those(capacitors and shit) in high school and I don't like it. Damn! I really want programming :/ But the college is too far, faaaar away from my home.

[Sinner]

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Originally Posted by newbienoob I did learn those(capacitors and shit) in high school and I don't like it. Damn! I really want programming :/ But the college is too far, faaaar away from my home.

Could you please post actual links to those 2 programs? It's hard to know what a course is actually about by it's name.
I'm guessing systems is more hardware-related, though (µcontroller programming, circuits, electrical engineering...).

[R@f]

You will probably have electronic courses if you choose Embedded Systems. But Systems and Embedded Systems are not the same at all !

In this case, I think it's more something about system administration. By doing SysAdmin studies, you will learn how Windows and Unix/Linux system works, how to design infrastructures, some networking (switching, routing) and scripting (bash, batch, vbs, powershell, ...). It's very interesting and really useful to know how systems and networks work for programming. You can do System studies and write programs as a hobby. That's what I'm actually doing at work. I'm working as network security engineer and I'm still writing programs to automate my work.

[Lorenc_]

As I have mentioned in my previous posts, College here is considered Highschool in Australia - University is the next step after though.

To clarify, your college doesn't provide any classes based on Software Engineering or Computer Science? If they do, you may want to check one and/or more of those out as they most likely have programming involved. My bad if what I say is completely out of topic, I still haven't finished school myself.