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From: janr@molienergy.bc.ca (Jan Reimers)
Subject: Re: Beginner looking for advice.
Message-ID: <1995Aug30.201919.23162@molienergy.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 20:19:19 GMT
References: <41m918$jkf@nova.umuc.edu> <macgremd-290895162327@ck5121gm45b.open. <4201tp$doc@crl14.crl.com>
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In article <4201tp$doc@crl14.crl.com> gherlein@crl.com (Greg Herlein) writes:
>ac.uk> <41vgj7$k78@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>:
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>Michael Herried (theaxiom@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>:     I'm about as new as you can getin programming.  I have just started
>: my C for Dummies book.  I hope to excel far beyond that, but this is it
>: so far.  I was told to learn C then C++ as they are supposedly the
>: money makers.  Is this true?  If not, what do I really want to learn
>: then.  I will be taking a vocational course on programming soon, but
>: they dont focus much on C at all.  Any hints or suggestions?  Thanks in
>: advance.
>
>What kind of programming would you like to do?  Application programming 
>is likely to be a very big employer well into the future - C and C++ will 
>do you well there.  Systems programming uses C to a very very large 
>degree... though there may be a shift to C++.
>
>If you get skilled in C/C++ you will be employable, especially if you try 
>to learn other software engineering topics.  

I would be happy if that were true.  But it seems that 90% of the programming
job postings that I see, have "Experience with Microsoft Foundation classes"
or something else about Visual C++, is required.  It is unfortunate 
that these employers give less weight to good C++/OOD skills.



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 | janr@molienergy.bc.ca                |                                     |