ADVICE

Don't program computers as a career if you want to keep it as a hobby. It's almost always really shit.

QFT.

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Too true :(

True. Knowing how to code good is nice especially if you know something useful to go along with it.

Buy more RAM.

Probably very true, I've heard that about programming as well as basically "any" hobby.

But from another perspective, programming isn't where the big bucks are like most people believe. This is because it's becoming increasingly popular. It's not like it was 10 or 15 years ago when it was rare to find a programmer. Now days, half the people you meet on the internet can program in some kind of language. So I'd say the scarcity of it is declining rapidly, and without scarcity, there's little to gain in cash. So I would chalk that up as another big reason to never do it for a living.

>>7
Not according to Dr. Smallberg of UCLA (my professor). He's compiled some statistics and has come to the conclusion that around the time I graduate (4 years from now) demand for computer engineers will start picking up, due to so many people avoiding engineering because of their fear of outsourcing. He also had some other reasons I can't remember anymore. Something about breakthroughs on the horizon that will create lots of jobs.

>>7
Oh shit. You're that creepy pedo with the Sonic game.

>>7
Programming does seem to become more of a commodity with each passing year. However, even though "half the people on the Internet" may know a programming language it doesn't mean they're good programmers. I still think there's well paying jobs out there for people who can program well since these people will always be relatively hard to come by. This is where the hobbyist has an advantage.

>>8
What computer engineering actually is seems to differ from school to school. I've seen some CE programs where the program was almost identical to the next computer science program and in other instances I've seen CE as a combination of digital electronics/computer science. Is your program a part of the former or the latter? If it's the latter I can understand that; people knowledgeable in electronics are in demand right now (that's one of the main reasons why I chose to take electronics engineering in school). But the former? I don't know.

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