The presentation is to blind/vi students/parents to describe career opportunities in Information Technology.

1. Information Technology Career Opportunities for the Blind/VI Arnold Bailey [email_address] www.blind411.org/ITCareers/

3. Information Technology Definition Software and hardware technology used to gather , store , process , maintain , distribute and utilize information that is critical to running a corporation

4. Before the Information Age People + Paper + Filing = Slow

5. Information Age Information is everywhere. But, How can I get to it?

15. Part 2 Overview of Information Technology Career Paths

18. Business Applications Development Programming Tools Dev. & Support Operations Support Major Areas of IT Jobs

19. Operations Support Operations Operations Analyst Network Administrator Network Systems Analyst Database Administrator Database Manager Computer Support Specialist Systems Programmer Systems Engineer

25. Importance of Marketable Skills “’ What are your marketable skills?’ That's it! If you don't have marketable skills then there's no sense in looking for a job. If you do, you need to know what they are. You need to know how you compare with others in your chosen occupation.” Michael Bullis, Blind Industries and Services of Maryland

30. Design: Pseudo code set counter to 65 do add one to counter if counter > 91 then print the counter leave loop else increment counter by 1 End if loop End program

31. Design: Flowchart Set counter to 65 Counter >91? Add 1 to counter Print Counter Yes No

32. C C++ C# Java Visual Basic Assembly Python Pascal SQL(DB) Typical Programming Languages Cobol Pl1 Fortran Assembler RPG CICS(Tx)

33. HTML/XHTML JavaScript JAVA ASP ASP.NET PHP Perl Web Development Languages

34. Appendix B – Example Program Source

35. Basic Language what is the final value of J? 10 A = 4096 20 B = 1 30 J = 1 40 IF A=B THEN 90 50 A = A/4 60 B = 4*B 70 J = J+1 80 GOTO 40 90 END

36. C Language #include <stdio.h> main() { int i; for(i=65; i < 91; i++) printf(&quot;%c&quot;, i); }

37. ASP do while FoundStyle = 0 X = (file.ReadLine & vbCrLf) if inStr(X,aa)=1 & FoundStyle = 0 then FoundStyle = 1 'Response.Write(&quot;<b>Found first style</b><br>&quot;) Response.Write(X) end if loop

38. Python >>> tax = 12.5 / 100 >>> price = 100.50 >>> price * tax 12.5625 >>> price + _ 113.0625 >>> round(_, 2) 113.06