How in demand are IT's 2016?

[FlyNavy]

Originally Posted by IdeaGuy

I completely know how you feel. The same exact thing happened to me. I went to school for software engineering though, dropped out half way, but still built a ton of software that were personal projects, competed in hack a thons, and this got me some attention.

In IT can you build stuff? As a coder guy, I never really learned much about IT. Is it possible to build stuff with your IT skills?

e.g. I could write some code that will display a ted feed, link to the original post, build a vote system for users to say whether they liked the talk or not, then have the UI element do some neat animation off the screen if the user votes down. Building personal projects like this & open sourcing the code got some employers to interview me.

Is there equivalent stuff to do in IT ?

If you're talking about IT's in the Navy, as in the rate, they aren't going to be doing much coding.

Your best bet for that would be CTN. And if you were to head that route I would say have a good understanding of a few high and low level languages, especially anything based in C.

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CTT1

[IdeaGuy]

Originally Posted by CTT1(SW)Griffin

If you're talking about IT's in the Navy, as in the rate, they aren't going to be doing much coding.

Your best bet for that would be CTN. And if you were to head that route I would say have a good understanding of a few high and low level languages, especially anything based in C.

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CTT1

I was wondering about that actually. And I tried to get into the Information Dominance Core as an IT. But they rejected me because I have some debt. I think I told them I am a software engineer, but they didn't seem to care. I've studied their publicly available client side code (*.navy.mil, navy.com) via ctrl-shift-i and ctrl-u in chrome, and can build everything I've seen. But oh well.

So I went into the AECF instead. I saw that there is a "computer programming" apprenticeship. Do you know how those work?

I've studied C/C++/Java/VisualBasic/Python in College, but it's been years since I've used them as these strongly typed oop languages (except C) tend to require more lines of code to solve the same problems JavaScript can solve in twice as less code.

[FlyNavy]

Originally Posted by IdeaGuy

I was wondering about that actually. And I tried to get into the Information Dominance Core as an IT. But they rejected me because I have some debt. I think I told them I am a software engineer, but they didn't seem to care. I've studied their publicly available client side code (*.navy.mil, navy.com) via ctrl-shift-i and ctrl-u in chrome, and can build everything I've seen. But oh well.

The debt is what killed you there.
The single most common factor that get people into espionage is debt. Whether it's another country feeding them money to pay for that in return for intelligence or just an example of poor management, debt has been probably the most common factor in cases where people turn into spies for other countries.

It's just not something they're going to be willing to bend on.

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CTT1