do anyone studied IT? ( informational technology?)
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First, study hard and turn your assignments in on time :}> That goes without thinking, and, as you are already studying, I’ll address below some of the important extra things.
Learn how to learn a customer’s technical and economic vocabularies. In a career in IT, knowing how to do this is very important. As part of requirements elicitation this is a critical skill. You need to be able to talk to customers on their own terms. (You also need to talk to the developers on their own terms, but I assume that’s covered in your formal curriculum.)
In an IT career, you may well need to do this a number of times. For practice, select an application domain that interests you. Subscribe to the trade literature — these are the materials that the industry uses to keep track of what’s going on. The trade literature per se is the way commercial activities and developments are rapidly publicized and discussed. The professional literature may be highly specialized and opaque, but there are usually journals with a broader perspective. In medicine, there are the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). In computing it’s Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM) and IEEE Spectrum.
Other professions and trades have similar publications. All have web sites and web publications you should track. Pick an area, explore what’s available, and learn the jargon, the concepts, the leading companies and relevant products, etc. Spend at least a year on this. Then pick a different area and repeat the exploration and learning as your fun extra task for another year.. You are learning a meta skill which you will make use of throughout your career.
Secondly, learn how to make Microsoft Office’s components hop through hoops. For example, Excel is the language of MBAs and other managers, and it’s a language you have to learn to use to quickly communicate with customers. Word’s spelling corrector will save your life. But never use the Thesaurus! I assume in your IT studies you’ll learn how to use an IDE and a prototyping/ interface experimenting product.
Last comes the hardest part: Learn your native language, and English if that isn’t it, really well. No grammatical errors. Know how to spell and make both reports and screens perfect. During my academic career, this was the commonest complaint from our customers. (Our customers are the people who hire our graduates, and those graduates are our product.) Know the difference between “affect” and “effect”, among “it”, “its” and “it’s”, that “but also” has to follow “not only”.
Golly, I sound just like a high school English teacher. But here’s the truth: they were right. Most IT graduates are functionally illiterate. This especially shows up on screens they specify/ prototype and in proposals and specifications. Yes, everybody is noticing your mistakes and laughing at you.
I can’t resist ending this by saying, “go forth and sin no more!”