IT Market Career Demand?

[GhandiInstinct]

Anyone have some good sources that could help me out in choosing a career that is going to be in demand in the computer field?

I hear about outsourcing and I hear IT only hires experienced now so what about fresh graduates? And what specificaly is in demand right now?

Some sources would be nice too.

Thanks.

 

[JS80]

lol...

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: yllus
Software developers - quality ones - are in fact in rather short supply.

What do I mean by "quality ones"? Well, start by noting I didn't say "programmers", I said "software developers". A programmer takes an order to write procedures and whatnot and does just that. A software developer takes a business requirement, translates it into the realms of computerese and answers back to management about what can and can't be done, and for what cost. He can speak in multiple languages: In high-level overviewese with non-technical people, in engineer-precise terms with other developers, and finally in code itself. He is a candidate to move up.

Building/rebuilding computers, like programming, is chimp's work. If not outsourced or drummed down into low-level work yet, it soon will be. But software developers will be needed in North America forever. If you can do that job, stick around in the field.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

yllus.

Thanks bro, that makes perfect sense indeed.

My question would be, I imagine a Computer Science degree is minimum, what's the highest level math needed for such a degree?

 

[MageXX9]

For my CS degree is was Calc 2, and statistics for engineers and scientists.

I also took Physics 1 & 2, but I could have taken Chemistry or Biology.

 

[MSCoder610]

In mine (Texas A&M) it's Calculus 3 (Vector Calculus), Discrete Math (Logic, Proofs, etc), and Linear Algebra or Differential Equations.

 

[her209]

I had to take quite a few math classes.

 

[tfinch2]

Calc 1 and 2, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, Statistics

 

[2Xtreme21]

For Comp Sci it's significantly more than for IT, at least at my school. I'm an IT major and completed Calc I in high school (AP credits) and that, coupled with a statistics class I'm taking next semester, will be sufficient for my math requirement. However, I'm in a bunch of econ, logic, and communications courses that CS majors aren't required to take, so it's definitely dependant on what you want to do.