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bella27

Hey,

Not sure if someone can give me advice or not, here's my story.

So I did my leaving (failed Maths - surprisingly enough though I'm good with numbers and solving relatively easy mathematical problems) and went onto do Secretarial Course in local community college, from there I went on to work in an office environement and because office manager over a span of a number of years, learned a lot including IT support, accounting, running day to day business etc... all areas really to be fair and learned to think very quickly on my feet.

So then I felt I needed a change (and more money ). I went into project management in an IT environment and while I love my job I would love to know, if I could go an study some kind of software development, would be great to do this on a part time/ distance learning basis but I'm wondering if I would have to go back and do maths first? Based on what I know to date, I believe Maths would be an important trait to have when going into SW dev?

Any information would be very helpful.

thanks
Bella

kerry4sam

bella27 wrote: »

Hey,

Not sure if someone can give me advice or not, here's my story.

So I did my leaving (failed Maths - surprisingly enough though I'm good with numbers and solving relatively easy mathematical problems) and went onto do Secretarial Course in local community college, from there I went on to work in an office environement and because office manager over a span of a number of years, learned a lot including IT support, accounting, running day to day business etc... all areas really to be fair and learned to think very quickly on my feet.

So then I felt I needed a change (and more money ). I went into project management in an IT environment and while I love my job I would love to know, if I could go an study some kind of software development, would be great to do this on a part time/ distance learning basis but I'm wondering if I would have to go back and do maths first? Based on what I know to date, I believe Maths would be an important trait to have when going into SW dev?

Any information would be very helpful.

thanks
Bella

Hi Bella,

Welcome to our ITTralee forum

Maybe you could answer something for me? Is there a particular course in the Institute in Tralee (North or South) campus you are interested in and if so, have you checked their spec to see if you have the necessary experience and/or qualifications already?

There is a thread here on distant/part-time learning and courses if you want to re-phrase your question and ask in there? Don't post this exact message in there though as it could be seen to be spamming . I know you only want info and I am sure someone somewhere here on boards could assist you . There is also the forum for Mature & Non-Traditional Students right here if the Institute in Tralee may not have a suitable or relevant course for you, you might find a course elsewhere.

kerry4sam

siblers

There are some students on here who are like 2nd/3rd year software development students who will give you a better idea of what softwre dev is like, I am a first year computing student and I hadn't touched maths in around 6 years (always struggled with maths) and I'm finding the maths aspect of the course grand out. We had a maths module in first semester and we started off from scratch (the lecturers start pretty much everything from scratch).

You should also look into doing some Java in your freetime, as if you don't like it or cant grasp it then software wont really be for you (my biggest regret is not doing a FAS course in Java as it would have been very beneficial).

In software you'll be doing lots of programming (java) which requires a lot of logic and problem based solving but I don't think you have to be all that great at maths to do it. You should probably get onto the college and enquire about what part-time courses they have on offer and what are the requirments etc. They have part time computing courses but not sure if it will feature software development though.

JFlah

Definitely being able to follow logic is as/more important than actual mathematics , most of the maths we have come across so far(1st year) is of a reasonably basic level and as regards Java there are methods available for most of the maths we have come across. Absolutely though if you can get some grounding in Java it will be of enormous benefit as it is the module causing the most difficulty for students