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Opportunities : Software Engineering

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Software engineering is a branch of computer science which includes the development and building of computer systems software and applications software. The software engineer is typically the person who helps develop the ways that the software functions by working with designers, coders and programmers to create functioning programs or add new features to existing software.   Payscale  states that the average annual base salary of a software engineer in Sri-Lanka is about 1,000,000 LKR and if this sounds like an interesting career path for you and you would like to know more about how my friend escaped A/Ls and has a degree in software engineering (already at 20), read on. The start: So Malith, having done his O/Ls in 2016 was contemplating the idea of doing A/Ls or applying for an IT degree at a private University. He was convinced that the A/L pathway might be more time consuming and along with his encouraging and supportive parents, they proceeded to branch out and understa...

Why you shouldn't do GCE A/Ls

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Advanced levels. Traditional, easy, straight-forward and possibly the path most followed. But it can also be a dead end. Before I go rambling on about how A/Ls can delay your life I want to say that these are purely my thoughts and I am just sharing my experiences here. I'm simply providing insight for people who might think that A/Ls is the only way for a successful future so that they can think again for themselves and make a better informed decision about whether it is the right choice or not. If you do have any thoughts or queries on this topic feel free to leave them in the comments section below. On with the rambling now: You do not HAVE to do A/Ls. You can, but you don't HAVE to. This was an idea I picked up on recently. I didn't really have any thoughts going on to do A/Ls myself because I was interested in doing medicine and knew only the traditional path of getting my degree (which I found out that there were not so traditional and faster pathways of doing this la...