A Career in IT and Computer Science -2023

A search in best jobs in the US tells 3 out of 10 best paying jobs in US are IT jobs. A student should computer 16 years of education. Do not go for any less. That is

  1. Class 1-10.
  2. Higher Secondary or College in US or A level.
  3. 4 years at Bachelors of Computer Science.

That is total 16 years of education. Good schools to choose in Middle East and Asia. You are in the Saudi Arabia and want to study in a school, going up to education in CSE.
Schools:

  • British International School, Dubai-68,700 AED /year.
  • British School of Jeddah-Continental previously.
  • Manarat Jeddah. They were really good, or the best in the 80s.
  • Indian International School-11,000 AED/year.
  • American International School Jeddah(AISJ)
  • Xaviers College-Kolkata, India
  • Presidency College,Kolkata,India
  • Notre Dame -Bangladesh
  • Aga Khan -Bangladesh

After the 10 th grade and A levels or grade 12, an application to a suitable university is needed but that is a different process.
The student must make sure he or she has taken Physics and math in A level (IGCE) or Grade 11-12.
Here is selection of few computer science universities around the world.

United States:

  • UT Austin
  • Georgia Tech
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom:

  • University of Oxford
  • Imperial College London
  • The University of Edinburgh

Finland:

  • University of Helsinki

Sweden:

  • Chalmers University of Technology.

Germany:

  • Technical University of Munich (TUM)

India:

  • Indian Institute of Technology –Bombay
  • IISC
  • BITS Pilani
  • Jadavpur University

Middle East:

  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST)

Bangladesh:

  • BUET
  • North South University(NSU)-private
  • AIUB

It is not just education but practice in IT is more crucial.
Which programming language to learn and which to start?
A person wanting to be software developer must learn

  1. C
  2. C++
  3. Java

    A. Web Design-HTML/CSS
    B. Web Development –PHP/ASP.NET/JSP
    C. Data Base Development-Oracle, SQL Server.

Professional Experience:

A person with a bachelor’s in Computer Science is not enough until you get about minimum 2-4 years of experience at a job. Sometimes a person may want to be a Java programmer but ends up with jobs in PHP.

Apart from the CSE degree, few IT certifications are valuable:

  • AWS Solutions Architect Course
  • DevOps Certification Training
  • PMP® Certification Training
  • Cisco Certifications
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate

This gives a brief idea to get started in world of IT where only “Change is Constant”.