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Started by Lola* in Chit-Chat

so, I’ve been studying GIS (geographical information systems) and want to do an advanced GIS and Remote Sensing course next year cos I know that I’m not gonna get anywhere (and by this I mean that I won’t make loadsa money) with coastal management…
whenever I see GIS/RS jobs advertised they always say that knowledge of programming would be beneficial (for web based gis i guess). All of these programming thingys make no sense to me(html,vb,c++, javascript)…
so firstly…what’s the most basic?
and secondly when I can do the most basic, then what should I progress to?
thanks…

Posted on Mon, 17 October 2005 at 16:30

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deadsetgav wrote:

I would write off to one of the places advertising these jobs and ask how much you need to know. I would imagine for entry level they are only going to want to you have an understanding of these.

You might be able to pick up the basics of HTML from a library book. Its used for building web pages,

I dont know a great deal about Visual Basic, from what I have heard of it - its not dissimilar to C

I doubt C++ is something you can pick up and understand from a library book… I did Java programming for my degree and its not a million miles away from C++. If you understand the concepts of one, the other will be fairly familiar.

Do they want experts in GIS that have an understanding of coding or a software engineer with an understanding of Geography?

Posted on Mon, 17 October 2005 at 16:42

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White Psycho wrote:

HTML is very simple for the most part, but to do anything fancy you need some javascript knowledge (the rollovers on the menu icons at the top of the page are done using javascript).

VB is kinda similar to C/C++ as gav said but its a lot more simple and not nearly as powerful. C/C++ is a programming standard for many things like games and software.

Posted on Mon, 17 October 2005 at 16:45

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Lola* wrote:

deadsetgav wrote:

Do they want experts in GIS that have an understanding of coding or a software engineer with an understanding of Geography?

gis experts with understanding of coding…web based and open source gis is getting a lot more popular and I think that it will make me more employable if i can do it…

so then…learn html myself then maybe java…

it’s not a big thing…just that I am missing out on starting the gis course in January cos of the job I’m doing now…so I have til jan 2007 before I can do it…so I’m gonna try get some GIS experience and on the side do some evening courses,,,and in Dublin there are millions of courses…just trying to pick the most valuable cos they’re not cheap and I don’t want to waste my time…

Posted on Mon, 17 October 2005 at 16:59

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tgE wrote:

completely useless language now, but by far the easiest to learn for me was Pascal. (excluding HTML which technically isn’t a program language, but i can’t be arsed to explain this now). so easy and you used to be able to download it free off borland’s web site.

but HTML is easy, and so is CSS which is a brilliant way of positioning stuff on web pages. i can’t believe we had to go through years of the interweb without CSS as it makes everything under your control, and takes away a lot of guesswork. Dreamweaver is a good tool to use to learn all aspects of web programming. it explains all the HTML tags, and if used with TopStyle, CSS is easy to pick up.

Java, I heard so many good things about it. I personally can’t stand it, but it does have it’s good points, especially for the learner in that everything is constrained for one thing. you can’t make it do something stupid as easily as you could in C/C++.

Visual Basic - quite easy.

BASIC - why not start here. like pascal it’s of absolutely no use unless they want you to program a calculator or something. QBasic is easy to get hold of.

Posted on Mon, 24 October 2005 at 15:31

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