Woman in technology

[AnonyMs]

That all seems very technical, but which pays more money?

[Xirafel]

That all seems very technical, but which pays more money?

Varies. The higher level languages have more jobs, as they're easier to learn, however the lower level languages are more difficult to code in and are faster. It mainly depends on experience.

I do know that game programmers are paid very little comparatively speaking, compared to other C++ programmers as everyone wants to be a game programmer.

[AnonyMs]

I guess the important question is what do you need to do to get paid money for your skills? Or what skills do you need to develop?

[kelly_aus]

I've mostly done small projects for small business. My first project was in High School when I wrote an attendance package that interfaced with card readers..⁽¹⁾ It was originally written in Turbo Pascal and was ported to Delphi when the school admin finally moved to a Windows environment. Had to go back later and add in support for TCP/IP. Since then I've done a number of projects in collaboration with a friend who runs an IT consultancy specialising in Open Source solutions, this has included taking over other, older projects in a variety of languages - so I'm not a master of any language but can generally fix bugs and add new functionality. I've also done some work as a sysadmin..

I don't work in IT as a career any more but do still do some work for my friend, usually on projects I've done for him in the past. I have a friend who currently works for Box, but previously worked for MS and he told me of several trans people he came across while working there, many in quite high level positions - one was a senior dev on the Exchange team.

(1): Yes, I wrote in a backdoor do give myself unlogged access - how else could I skip classes and get away with it.

[josie76]

Xirafel

People like to write code which *just works* everywhere.
That's one thing which makes C++ frustrating to deal with.

I find the opposite to be true but everyone has different uses and coding styles. A lot of my focus as been on embedded processors and Windows. C++ is the standard for most embedded processor IDEs except for FPGAs. I don't like Linux much as an OS. Sure it's basically free but the old Berkley Sockets are so slow at getting data in and out of the application. I have written small executable files that can be run on a Windows laptop and connect to a thousand data sources and several thousand end users at the same time. By comparison similar software from others running on Linux needed a multiprocessor server unit and still bogged down. Could be their coding style but anecdotal evidence points to Microsofts OS being much more optimized. But yes for Windows with C++ you need to use API functions for UI and Linux has its own functions and libraries needed. That's just my experience though.

With all of your programming experience you should be able to find a job easily. From your other posts I know you are still with your parents but I imagine you will be able to work and live wherever you want soon enough. I just remember reading how that was bothering you.

You are already in a very good start to both life and finding your true self.