Where are application development skills going in the short term?
August: “Programming entire software applications by hand is becoming outmoded. Technicians will still need to know how programs work to make fine revisions or tweaks, but tools like WebSmart will do most of the work. Understanding business concepts is going to become more important for technicians. As it stands now, IT students typically never sit through a business class. We are unique as we have an MIS program with integrated business concepts.” BCD: How would you assess the support you’ve received from BCD? August: “BCD has been absolutely terrific – they have been a huge help. I’m the administrator and I need to train other faculty members as they decide to incorporate System I into their courses. Therefore, the more support that organizations like BCD can give me the better it is because there’s already so much to do. Eric Figura of BCD actually gave me training modules that I could use in our eCommerce courses. That was a huge help! And BCD is letting us use WebSmart for free. A
