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How can v know more about computer without going to any institution? |
How can v know more about computer without going to any institution? There are multiple paths to enlightenment that can appeal to different people * get a job, any job ... do a good job ... tell management you want to learn ______ and some work environments will provide the relevant training * There are thousands of computer users conventions all over the world. Typically each convention runs several days, with several tracks of seminars, so that at any one moment you have choice of a dozen different topics to listen to lectures on. You can get schedule of events in advance, plan which seminars you want to attend. The cost of attending these conventions varies widely ... start off going to cheaper ones ... the more expensive ones are the best, and typically you can get huge discounts if you are member of relevant computer club * Major metropolises have computer expositions, generally in convention centers downtown ... ask the convention and visitor's bureau of your closest big cities for schedule of upcoming events, then you plan on attending some of these ... admission costs trivial * Every 6 months or so, the major computer companies come out with new releases of operating systems, applications, capabilities, hardware, then they send a tour around each of several nations to demonstrate to their customers what all the new stuff is. Typically this traveling road show is held in major hotels in dozens of different cities in each US state ... it is free to attend ... they have continental breakfast at no charge, llunch at no charge there are a series of seminars that give an in depth demonstration of latest state of art of what can now be done with a particular family of computers ... you have to know someone within a relevant industry to get an invite ... you can usually do so through the computer clubs * get legal access to computers, either at home, where parents work, friend's home ... buy books, or borrow from library, that are relevant to the kind of computer you got access to (for example, if the computer system you have access to is running UNIX then it not help you to be studying books on Windows) ... do exercises to explore what the books say you can do * hang out with people who work with computers & ask them to tell you about their work, or let you watch * every city has scores of computer clubs and associations ... there are clubs for people who work with each operating system (LINUX IBM MICROSOFT etc.) with each type of data base (ORACLE RDB UDB etc.) each programming language (JAVA SQL RPG COBOL etc.) each major application .... even tiny cities have these clubs ... you locate what is in your area and become a regular at the club meetings There are institutions which do good education work, but can cost many thousands of dollars. Many of the clubs, local computer stores, otehrs, periodically arrange to have professors from the institutions visit various communities to do their thing ... we end up with much less cost of education. Instead of hundreds of people traveling to the institution, hassle of travel, cost of travel, cost of lodging ... bring the professor to where the hundreds of students are, vastly reducing costs for travel and lodging. Read books appropriate to the area you're trying to learn more about. IOW: the same way as going to an institution but cheaper and without someone to help you along. |
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