Any decent certifications for electronics and programming?

[Lii]

Hello

 

I'm not sure if this is the right section or not..

 

So.. I didn't go to university

Mainly because I thought it was a waste of time (I didn't like at all their plans) and also because it was pricey

 

So I was looking for some type of certifications (they might be even useless, but I do have my reasons to get one), any suggestions?

 

[The_russian]

Certifications for what? CompTIA A+ is a general IT cert, anything past that is a certification for something like networking, security, windows server, windows SQL, etc.

[piratemonkey]

Depends on what you're wanting to do. There's general certs that say you know how to use a computer, then there's certs that say you know how to configure an entire network. Generally tho, it's better to go for vendor independent certs (Comptia for example) as they're more applicable for all jobs. Though if a company that you would like to work at uses all windows stuff, or all cisco stuff, or all AWS stuff, it'd be better to get those

[LAwLz]

Not sure about electronics but for programming there are certainly certs, but it's probably best to build up a portfolio of projects instead if you don't want to get a degree.

Programming certs are pretty much universally seen as useless.

[Lii]

Nevermind, but thanks to all

 

I think that I was able to subscribe to some shitty university course (their plans are shit, but they seems to be less expensive than a couple of certifications)

 

I still don't like the idea to have spent money for "education" while this one can be easily acquired for free.. but I got a social pressure to subscribe to an university.. since I still don't have enough money to go into another house by myself..

[LAwLz]

1 minute ago, Lii said:

Nevermind, but thanks to all

 

I think that I was able to subscribe to some shitty university course (their plans are shit, but they seems to be less expensive than a couple of certifications)

 

I still don't like the idea to have spent money for "education" while this one can be easily acquired for free.. but I got a social pressure to subscribe to an university.. since I still don't have enough money to go into another house by myself..

If you don't want to get a degree then don't do it. If you aren't motivated then chances are you won't be able to finish the degree anyway.

Work on building a portfolio of projects on GitHub instead and work on getting the knowledge through free tutorials and the likes. From what I have gathered (although I have no personal experience), most programming recruitments are made by doing things like tests during the interview process. For example a senior developer ask you how you would implement certain things, maybe write some code during the interview to show off your skills. Being able to link to a GitHub where the employer can look through your previous work is a good thing too.

[Lii]

2 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

If you don't want to get a degree then don't do it. If you aren't motivated then chances are you won't be able to finish the degree anyway.

The problem is that my family is into the idea that I should subscribe to university, 

And since I still don't have a fixed income, I'm at the mercy of their decisions

 

Though dunno if I could take my money back after paying for it

But the courses seems to be pretty much reduced to the bone and fattened with useless bullshits

2 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Work on building a portfolio of projects on GitHub instead and work on getting the knowledge through free tutorials and the likes. From what I have gathered (although I have no personal experience), most programming recruitments are made by doing things like tests during the interview process. For example a senior developer ask you how you would implement certain things, maybe write some code during the interview to show off your skills. Being able to link to a GitHub where the employer can look through your previous work is a good thing too.

I agree with you 

But unfortunately I don't have that much of freedom

 

Though many workers searchers do look for university/college degrees or other certificate, I do guess that is for filtering out the possible candidates