<p>Hi I graduated high school two years ago, I wanted to do software engineer, such as computer programming, but I've never studied everything about this major before. How should I get started?Any good suggestion of technology school?</p>
<p>Perhaps you should reacquaint yourself with math at cc.
What was the highest math you took in hs?</p>
<p>Community college should be a relatively inexpensive way to take some introductory computer science courses (check which ones transfer to the universities you are interested in). Also, math, as suggested by another poster.</p>
<p>You would want to pick a CC that has ties to bigger 4-year schools. Those “ties” are usually a result of a CC having a history of their students performing well at the bigger school.</p>
<p>Hell, for certain in-demand majors I would suggest knocking out the first 2 years at a CC and transferring. Outside of the very small I-Banking and High-Finance industry, employers do not care if you started at a CC.</p>
<p>I have worked with plenty co-workers who started at CC’s and transferred to bigger schools.</p>
<p>There’s something strange about this OP. Just a few days ago, s/he was talking about pursuing an MFA at SCAD.</p>
<p>yeah cause’ i am considering which major i should pursue, since there is not much job opportunity for art major</p>
<p>So you jump all the way to software engineering?</p>
<p>Don’t take that the wrong way, but an unfocused search like that makes it seem like you need to spend a little more time researching majors, careers, and colleges.</p>
<p>Yeah, maybe the OP could find some helpful group where he could post questions on a variety of options and get ideas of a good vector to choose …</p>
<p>I would suggest some one-on-one time with a person who really could get to him him/her and discuss his/her interests. Perhaps a school counselor. </p>
<p>Online you’re not going to get the best advice for these sorts of things because the posters don’t know you.</p>
<p>CCs are great, but bear in mind that the “IT/CIT” sort of degrees offered by two-year colleges are not as sophisticated as a genuine 4-year computer science degree. Do what the other guy said and go to a CC with strong ties to a 4-year college, make sure you are preparing yourself well for transfer into a 4-year CS degree. If you load up on CC-level computer courses, bear in mind that many or most of them won’t transfer over, your best option will probably be to go for an AS, taking as much math and science as you can, and maybe a handful of computer programming courses (anything in Java or C/C++ should prepare your well for a four-year degree).</p>
<p>Right off the bat, it can’t hurt to get a recent book on C, C++, or Java, and teach yourself to do some simple programming. If it seems like the type of thing you want to do, then you know you will be happy getting a degree in it.</p>