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- From: swampwiz@ix.netcom.com(Jean P. Laborde )
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Questions Of A Young Programmer
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 01:02:27 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- In <3172DDA3.7B4D@ids2.idsonline.com> Lally Singh
- <lsingh@ids2.idsonline.com> writes:
- >
- >Hello All.
- >I'm trying get some focus in my programming and my future plans. Any
- assistance
- >would be **VERY** appreciated.
- >I basically have two questions.
- >First, some background info:
- > I've been programming since I was eight (BASIC and Commodore BASIC
- in the
- >beginning. I learned C and C++ three years ago in DOS. I've slowly
- taught
- >myself how to program in Windows (Win16), and recently, a bit of UNIX.
- Also,
- >I learned some Assembley. Last summer, I used most of this when I
- completely
- >wrote a program for realtime data acquisition off a radiometer using
- an analog
- >to digital converter at a rate of 1 Khz. I ended up writing a Virtual
- Device
- >Driver, a Device Driver, and a full blown OWL 2.0 application. Now,
- I'm using
- >Win95 (but I don't have a Win95 compiler) and I have been using Linux
- on and off
- >for the last two years (and I like it a lot). Well, I'm 16 now.
- >
- >Enough with the info, on with the questions:
- > 1. Which OS should I go for, UNIX or Win95?
-
- Windows, IMHO, will eat up the competition
-
- > 2. Are there any ways for me to make a good amount of money using my
- talents
- > now? That programming I did last summer payed about eight bucks an
- hour, six
- > after taxes, and most of that paying for my overpriced car insurance.
- >
-
- Get a college degree in CS. If you can do all that you did last
- summer, you should have no problem whatsoever finding work at a good
- scale ($25/hr+)
-
- >THANK YOU!!! for any advice. I really need some guidance here so
- please try
- >and respond if at all possible. You'll help out one really confused
- kid.
- >
- >THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
- THANK YOU!
- >THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
- THANK YOU!
- >THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
- THANK YOU!
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