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What is the most marketable language currently? |
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Marketable languages |
| Date Posted: |
02/04/2000 |
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I'm currently looking to change careers and am studying programming. The one thing that strikes me as funny is that no one can really give guidance as to which is the most marketable language currently. Understandably, anything to do with the internet is hot right now but, I don't want to study a language that may be overwhelmed with people fighting for jobs.
As for right now, my gutt has told me to go with C++ and so I have been trying to tudor myself and get a feel for this language before I have to make my final decision. The only response to this selection was from an instructor who sayed that C++ is a very difficult language and that it may not be good as a first choice.
In addition I haven't been able to find much information on the pay for entry level in any of the languages. Any help for these querries and any additional information would be greatly appreciated.
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Twenty years ago, learning a computer language
without a computer-related education could
lead to a useful apprenticeship as a junior
applications programmer. However, with all
the sophisticated packages around these
days, non-programmers who understand the
app they're working on (e.g., payroll) can ourproduce such apprentices... and so
today's "junior" programmers are salaried
employees whose education and related
experience has taken them well past the
stage of apprenticeship.
If one needs to earn a computer-related
living without (at the very least) an
Associates degree worth of computer-related
education, I'd suggest following the kind of path more typical in health-related
fields... become a technician first and
get some practical experience while
gaining more education to get to the next
level. Yes, that kind of path might not
be as palatable to someone with a B.A. in
liberal arts as it would be for someone
with only a high school diploma... but it's
more likely to be productive than plunging willy-nilly into a profession one doesn't really understand.
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