Subj : Re: What things should successful programmers-to-be learn right now?
To   : comp.programming
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 12:07 pm

wee wrote:
> 
> So, it sounds like you're coming from an embedded background mostly.

Actually, no...I spent a relatively short period of time in my
(relatively early) career doing embedded/realtime systems, but most has
been in engineering--first in nuclear power (core design, mostly) and
later on in various development areas, mostly reasonably heavy in
computation/numerical analysis...

> That's fine, but I would call that a somewhat-narrow POV also because
> that's not all of the programming that's going on out there.

I wasn't claiming my POV was excessively wide-based either--I've never
done web-design or database kinda stuff like you mentioned...but I do
know they exist and have at least a little knowledge of those areas as
well as many others...


> Remember what Rick D. asked:
> 
> > What are the most important things successful programmers-to-be should
> > learn right now, to have a shot at a great career ?

Actually, no, I didn't recall that--I was simply responding to your
question of what areas of application are a specific list of languages
typically used...

> There are "great" careers in many programming fields, depending on
> whether he was defining "great" as an easy job that pays (web), or
> intellectually challenging (embedded, assembler, mathematical, etc.).

No argument there particularly although some web developers may not like
being characterized as "non-intellectual"... :)

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