College career on the Planning of GIS (large, long, fine)

 Digression.
The current status of GIS education, we more or less understand. I , described and analyzed. Because there are too many factors exist resistance, teaching reform is not able to carry out overnight, so lost friends, or do not expect the school will give you a good meal to feed it. As an adult, should have their own thought and will go its own way.
path selection, we must first know where we are, where mm is going to their location and destination location. seat no problem positioning, can be admitted to the University who almost all of their knowledge and skills, qualities and abilities, personality and character have some knowledge, but Jingdu different. destination location, it was a big problem, most people can only speak in general terms to find a job or scholarship business, then it is extremely difficult to see clearer. burglary lost a lot of people think that this is an important aspect. At first, like the map I was pregnant with small enthusiastic candidates for a GIS professional, but can not figure out their own in the end want to do, so wasted two years of good times (even though the traditional measure of is always saddened. On the occasion of graduation, I will organize their thinking a bit, I hope to be able to navigate the lost friend.
GIS beginner looking for work friends, have to consider what kind of work and under what kind of work they like. GIS job market due to the current oversupply situation is, demand exceeds supply, so more is better, or take into account market demand.
According to developers, Jobs version of the major forums, you can also see that almost every unit recruit developers. here a very typical to find a job posting:
position: GIS Development Engineer
requirements: proficiency in C # / C + + use; familiar ArcGIS Engine 9.0 or later use; a C # / C + + project experience is preferred with Engine;
This notice is simple, a total of three requirements: language, component and experience. objectively, on the candidates if asked, or low, I think a normal year of high school graduates should be able to seriously self-competence. However, the step by step the only taught VB and C based on these two medium of instruction, goal is to have two, three, however Grading requirements of the programming work on the programming requirements are totally different, not a direction. Second, once the two popular MapX GIS component species and the MO is exiting the social stage, however, is still the flagship in the classroom. Third, there is little experience in the development of students, many schools do not teach secondary development completely, even to teach, nor to the demands of the students high, simple to browse, search on the line, which hardly project experience. Therefore, to engage in development work friends, must be carried out in the campus self-study. personal opinion, seriously or over to participate in an ESRI map Office development team competitions, the company can achieve the requirements of the ordinary. The following look at a relatively high demand:
1, computer or GIS professional degree or above;
2, proficiency in C / C + + Language , Java, JSP, C # and other languages, are familiar with VC + +, JBuilder programming environment;
3, familiar with design patterns, UML, Rose and other modeling tools can build the system model;
4, master Supermap, Arcgis and other mainstream GIS platforms and secondary development, a GIS software platform underlying development background, familiar with the GIS algorithm used, the technology of Web Gis system architecture, performance, and security have a more profound understanding;
5, are familiar with SQLServer, Oracle database development .
6, have a good team spirit, good communication and interpersonal skills, cross-platform software development or embedded software development experience is preferred;
job netizens, who said that no less than 5,000 wage dry, but also said that an expert is not afford to pay 10K. But in fact, serious self-study for four years is more than enough to meet these requirements. one year self-study computer based language (in addition to VB or C, C #, C + +, Java , VB.NET the four should have a), web development, with a semester GIS desktop software and components business development (proposals to participate in competitions), with a semester on large databases and distributed systems, with a semester software engineering, systems analysis and architecture, with a year studying the underlying open source GIS software and training development (compared with secondary development of high technology, strong ability to study people who can go that route. need to learn algorithms and data structures, computer graphics, digital image processing . Many schools have opened these classes, but one is not tight with the combination of GIS, the second is practical enough so that theory can not grasp.), with a term to understand cross-platform, embedded, virtual reality and other cutting-edge technology.