Question

planning to major in computer science, not very skilled. know any training sites or something I can get started with? design and programming related

Answer 1

Get training in certificate programes like c,java or if u r interested go for ccna or other courses of ur interest. That's what i prefer

Answer 2

sites : http://academicearth.org , thenewboston.com, goto youtube.com and search tutorials, search google for some particular language you want to learn and openstudy is best to clear your doubts

Answer 3

Searching youtube and google will provide you every tutorial .
One who makes the google as his teacher learns alot

Answer 4

well lots of sites but the best is cramster.com

Answer 5

Typically CS Majors don't do much with design (other then UI), just letting you know. I would recommend learning C as your first language. It's not all that complicated but is quite powerful.

Microsoft's Development for Beginners (covers VB, C#,.NET,and C++)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/beginner/default.aspx

W3C Schools is great for learning Web Development
http://www.w3schools.com/

Other tools I would recommend for a newbie (since they are free) are:

DevCPP ( http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)
Notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
Visual C++ Express Edition ( http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express)

Read all that you can about the language, learn it, study the open source projects, practice good coding habits (camelcase, indent, comment, etc...), and you will do well.

Answer 6

You may want to look at "Programming Methodology - CS106A" at http://see.stanford.edu

Answer 7

A Bachelors Degree is good if you want to get into management, but if your not interested in management an Associates degree will be fine....and its less expensive. My best advice is attain your degree and get CERTIFICATIONS like CCNA MCIT, etc. Those will help your career a lot.

Answer 8

If you are interested in network security then you could go for CEH or SANS certification.
They are pretty highly rated .Moreover network security is really a hot topic at present.

Answer 9

If you enjoy the programming methodology lectures (posted by rsmith6559), I'll suggest the rest of the stanford video lectures.

http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=11f4f422-5670-4b4c-889c-008262e09e4e
http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=2d712634-2bf1-4b55-9a3a-ca9d470755ee

There are also more advanced lectures covered. See the full list at:
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

Answer 10

Don't worry , go to college. . . .
Learn Linux/c/c++/Python/PHP and what ever you like.
What makes you good programmer is share your code and learn from others code.
Use GNU and FOSS softwares and contribute to FOSS.
http://www.gnu.org/
http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.linux.com/

Try to be strong in algo and problem solving.Solve your daily work with programs.

Answer 11

help please