All I Ever Needed to Know I Learnt from RPG

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But if you want to work on mainframes and big-iron platforms, RPG would be a very smart option, if only to get exposure to the technologies and platforms of such systems. I've spent my after-university career on UNIX platforms and probably will never have a chance again to play around on big iron Of course it could be like COBOL, earn big bucks just because nobody else bothered to learn the language in the last twenty years Thank god I got a job doing something else.

I had the feeling that was likely the situation with RPG and was hoping someone could validate that for me. I will check with my school and find out if there is any meat to their RPG path. For the record, learning a relatively arcane programming language is something I would consider for the right opportunity. She buys anything she wants whenever she wants, with cash, because of that. The market is good enough, and positions numerous enough, that if you're good, you'll be able to find something in something a little more modern.

If you like that stuff, on the other hand, be my guest! Some people like being employable when they graduate.

This canard keeps coming up, in various forms, and it's nonsense. My classmates and I have all found excellent positions since graduation. None of us took a class on any particular programming language at any point in our college career because such courses were non-existent. We studied the fundamentals, and had to implement all sorts of things using them.

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Learning a variety of programming languages was an expected side effect, never the primary focus. For the OP's benefit: That all said, if you can get training in a highly specialized skill in an area that interests you, without sacrificing more durable and transferable knowledge, go for it. As long as you make connections to the right people along the way, it can open doors to you that other people will simply never see.

The writing on the wall is plain as day. I used to work for a major corporation as an IT manager. When searching for a RPG coder, it took us some time. But we found one and he got a giganormous salary for porting RPG stuff to newer technologies On the other hand, when I need a C or Java coder, I clap my hands and I have about waiting at the door, for a salary equivalent to flipping burgers at McDonald's.

It is highly unlikely you will ever be out of a good job, and you likely don't want to work anywhere that thinks that this sort of thing produces good results[2]. What is absolutely worth it is the contacts involved.

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That is indeed worth the effort if you want that sort of role and you should treat the networking involved as a key aspect of your career development. There is absolutely no shame in this whatsoever, you ability to interact well with people and inspire confidence is a valuable and useful talent. I'm just saying why work at those places. When people pick languages to learn, they usually group the languages based on where in the software stack that language typically runs. When you pick languages like Cobol, Fortran, etc.

You instead pick it by industry. So you should learn RPG if it's used in an industry that you want to work in. Deep level programming jobs in those industries are rare, but they do exist. So is learning RPG worth it? If you want to be a generalist that can land an entry level job in any city?

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Then no, RPG is not worth it. If you're focused on a particular industry, then yes, it might be. Of all the people giving career advice, I wonder how many lived through dotcom 1. Because it looks to me like we are going to have a lot of candidates for the Programmer's Symposium's Emkorial. That said, your curricular choices do seem a little strange. Which is not to say that leaning any of those languages is a waste of time, but rather that a university class doesn't really add any value. The same can't necessarily be said for e.


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Just to be clear: They are required classes, but they are vastly outnumbered by advanced mathematics classes and other classes about things like data structures and algorithms and the like. The only thing here involving choices is whether I take RPG or not. I enjoy coding in all forms. So far the answer seems to be that yes, spending the extra grand or so on a few extra classes may open a door the door being somewhat rare to a secure, higher-than-usual-paying job.


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I may never find such a door, but it seems wiser than not to have a key to those doors if I ever do. You, sir, compared to many who answered in this thread, will make a really fine coder. You have a finite amount of time and likely energy to use on your education. If you are contemplating learning a niche technology then think long and hard about it.

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Are the contacts good? What do graduates in this field get paid straight out of college? There is an element of speculation there of course, but since you are trying to influence the specifically your future here this is inevitable. If you are approaching this from a purely monetary point of view as you suggest then get brutal about it. Plenty of lucrative work in finance either keeping them ticking over or replacing them. I'd rather gnaw my own arm off[1] but horses for courses.


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This is hyperbole, for Comic effect. I'd go for the leg first every time. There were much better options for gaming and programming in the form of home computers. It became the native language of the hobbyist programmer. It's true that if you wanted to do anything remotely cutting-edge with those old 8-bit Apple, Commodore and Atari home computers, you had to pretty much learn assembly language. Even if you lacked the programming skills to become the next David Crane or Will Wright , there were still a lot of interesting games and programs you could still write in good old BASIC.

Certainly more than enough to figure out if you enjoyed programming, and if you had any talent. The Creative Computing compilations were like programming bibles to us. It was as unavoidable and inevitable as the air you breathed. Every time you booted up, there was that command prompt blinking away at you. And then the sense of wonder, of possibility, of being able to unlock the infinitely malleable universe inside your computer. Thus the careers of millions of programmers were launched.

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