beads wrote: » Security in general is leaning harder into having good development skills though I see people fighting that battle daily. GRC easily comes to mind. As well as infrastructure (Servers) and engineering (Routing and Switching). Though you will still be doing some basic scripting with either of those fields. Nothing fancy or you could do everything manually but be a martyr to the cause. Its just easier to learn some scripting. Windows Server 2016 looks heavy into powershell but as the old saw goes everything useful in PS has been written you just have go look for it or post on a board and we'll write the rest of it for you. Surprisingly I find myself writing some fairly sophisticated scripts and queries almost on a weekly basis in odd things like Websense and MobileIron. The first is a web screening appliance with a HUGE database to ***** through the later being a Mobile Device Management system. Of course your always free to pick up a teach yourself book in development and continue your learning as you progress throughout your career. Point being you can only put off learning some development only so long before you obsolete yourself in many IT fields. Not that you have been a master at it just familiar enough to get some basic tasks done. - b/eads
NetworkNewb wrote: » I'd recommend sucking it up and learning some programming. I know a lot of people hate the idea of it. But it can be extremely helpful in a lot of situations/jobs in IT. You may never write program or application but learning how programming works in your college courses will help you later on when you need to learn some scripting. The amount of time it can save doing tasks and the amount of people that don't use and refuse learn it is amazing! Personally, I find the more you learn how to use it, the more interesting/fun it is.
networker050184 wrote: » Most things people think of as programming in this realm are more along the lines of scripting than full on development.
