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- Subject: Re: CODE AS A CAREER:
- Message-ID: <1996Mar20.092247.20331@ned.cray.com>
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- Date: 20 Mar 96 09:22:46 CST
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- Ryan Richards (ryanr9@ally.ios.com) wrote:
- : I am an MIS student with about a year to graduate. I have heard a bunch
- : of talk in the magazines about the good money you can make these days in
- : the MIS field, especially in the database development (oracle, SAP,
- : Sybase) field. What I would like to know is if there are any career
- : computer people that could give some advice. It seems tha tin the
- : computer field, if you don't work for a BIG company that will continue to
- : train you on the newest languages (such as SAP) then you will have to
- : start all over again ina year or two to learn the newest language. For
- : example, C and C++ are still used, they have been around for a while but
- : the money is much better in Oracle, etc.but what about two years from
- : now? Is this how it will always be? I think I will go into sales !;)
-
- : Feel free to email me.
- : Thanks for your help
- : Ryan
-
- I my short 10 yrs as a programmer/system admin/developer I have come to
- realize that it's not the language you use as your tool of construction,
- it's the software engineering skills. Master your fundamental software
- skills and your will be set to learn what ever flavor of tool is out
- there.
-
- To date the most effort had been in learning C++ as an OOP language and
- not as simply a better C. I had used C++ for over two years with various
- projects done in C++. Then I took some course work in pure OOD priciples
- that demonstrated the OOD/OOP while not locking into a particular language.
- I realize now that I had approached the C++ learning process without having
- a good understanding of what was driving the C++ language, the OOD/OOP.
-
- In a nutshell I would say put your effort into understanding your foundation
- engineering skills and you'll have no problem learning the language of the
- day. This will also help you weed through the hype and see things for the
- value or lack there of they have.
-
- If you enjoy learning and exploring you picked a good field. I have not
- had a dull moment yet :-).
-
- Enjoy and welcome to the software community.
-
- Scott
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