San Diego Computer Training Schools

Feedback about the San Diego IT Schools (continued)

Here is another comment from an old hand who has probably seen as much as I have. He mentions a school that I wasn't aware of:

I have been doing this stuff a long time….hint, I attended windows server 3.1 (that’s right, before it went to 3.2, then jumped to 3.51) class in Redmond, and bill signed the certificate…..but I digress….the site is nice and it may help a lot of individuals and companies find more effective ways to spend the few training resources they have on more effective schools. Although I feel none of these schools is worth a crap. I did the mcse and became the mct after realizing in the 90’s how all the classes I had for cisco, Microsoft, and unit were some recycled dec, hp, or other mainframe era dude, reading me the book….i have learned to win the IT game, you have to find someone else invest in you as their human capital and pay for the education and certs.  I would earn people to stay away from the ones you list, plus add global knowledge, intense schools, and most on the road type companies. There was one Copernicus out of Carlsbad where I did some unix stuff, what a waste…. I would suggest the best thing any company or individual to do is invest in the official training materials from the company, Microsoft, cisco, etc. then buy some equipment and play with it on their own, make a test bed at work (separate from any live network), and teach themselves, at their pace, and at their absorption level….i have tried every class out there in the past 16 years, and I have found self study is the best way to go, sure I took the classes, but long after I mastered the skills on my own (a vacation away from the phones, beepers, users, managers, ect.)…..i decided to forget the cert path because of the cost to constantly recert-every 2-3 years (soon it will be moore’s law timetable, 18 months), and get 2 masters degrees, and create my own labs of equipment and offer them to friends, sell them off every so often, and rent out rack time to the poor….

Good luck

I almost sing up fo Micro Skills Now I glad I din't.
 attend Computer Education San Diego, Inc.  I have taken their CCNA, Security + and a couple of the MCSE courses.  I am working towards my MCSE.  My experience with Computer Education San Diego, Inc., has been very positive.  The administration people have been very knowledgeable and very helpful.  Their instructors are all certified and they make sure that everyone understands the material before moving on.  The class sizes are smaller than at other schools I considered so it allows one on one time with the instructor and better attention for those in class.  Their tuition is much more reasonable than Microskills too. JCR

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Clarence R. McCall:

Comment: I am a former microskills student (2003-2004)I can surely say microskills seemed shady from the very beginning.They whiz you through classes and do very little for you after that,your pretty much on your own.

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