Rising high school seniors can get a jump start on college by attending SPC’s College Jump Start Technology Program, June 8-July 10, at SPC’s Clearwater and St. Petersburg/Gibbs campuses. These summer classes give students a jump start in completing SPC’s bachelor’s degree in Technology Development & Management in four years for $10,000. The schedule is … Continue reading College Jump Start Technology Program for high school seniors
A new Computer Programming Lab opened recently on SPC’s St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus. The new lab is located in Room TE 111, on the ground floor of the Technical Building. “The lab is a place where students can interact and be creative, share computer screens, collaborate and use the white boards to help with programming assignments,” … Continue reading Computer Programming Lab opens on SPC campus
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) refers to a specific set of practices that enable Information Technology services to support business goals. The ITIL recommended steps and processes are quite broad and are meant to apply to any organization that uses IT. ITIL covers five primary areas: IT Service Strategy IT Service Design IT Service Transition … Continue reading Information Technology Infrastructure Library
An excerpt from a recent FBI press release provides details about a recent security investigation St. Petersburg College’s I.T. Security students might find interesting: “On April 8, 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force-International Cyber Crime Coordination Cell (IC4) coordinated with the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and … Continue reading In the news: FBI works with foreign partners to target Botnet
A recent Technology Career event held by the College of Computer & Information Technology (CCIT) at St. Petersburg College drew more than 250 people interested in exploring careers in Technology. Adam Doll, a senior recruiter at Veredus Corporation, a national Information Technology recruiting and staffing firm was the keynote speaker. Doll presented an overview of … Continue reading Technology career event draws 250+
St. Petersburg College has certificates and degrees to prepare you for a career in Computer Programming. Believe it or not, there are different ways of writing programs. We often refer to them as paradigms. Generally, we will classify them as imperative (Procedural and Object-Oriented) and functional. Most of the programming languages that are familiar to … Continue reading Paradigms: An innovative avenue to coding
An excerpt from a recent FBI website update provides details about a court case St. Petersburg College’s I.T. Security students might find interesting: LOS ANGELES—A member of the SwaggSec hacking group was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for participating in a series of computer attacks that compromised computer systems at DirecTV, Farmers … Continue reading In the news: Member of Hacking Group Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Among the certificates offered by SPC’s College of Computer & Information Technology (CCIT), Java programming is at the top of the list. Upon completion of CCIT certificate programs, students may choose to continue for industry certifications. Java programming video series In preparation for such certification, SPC Professor Adrian Tillman is putting together a series of … Continue reading An Inside Look at Java programming
What we learn in school is just a tiny fraction of what is available to us as programmers. My goal in this series of blog posts is to introduce you to some of the more advance topics of several different languages. In this post I will talk specifically about the python collections Counter class. The … Continue reading An Inside look at Python Counter
On Thursday, April 9, St. Petersburg College will host a Job & Career Fair at the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, SS-Lobby, from Noon-3 p.m. Bring your resume and dress for success to meet representatives from 40 employers including: Home Shopping Network Tech Data Lowes West Care Family Resources Wendy’s WOW SPC Career Outreach Specialists will be … Continue reading St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus hosts Job Fair