I've spent most of the last decade specialising in SQL data migrations & interfaces, and have recently been made redundant. I got a good payoff, including money towards the cost of a course, and decided to do a full-time MSc for a year to upgrade my rusty old qualifications.
I have done plenty of software development in various environments over the last 30-odd years, but nothing in widely-used contemporary languages, and I want to get back into development.
I have a number of offers for variously flavoured Comp Sci MSc courses but perhaps the key decision is whether to specialise in C++ or Java? It's an either-or decision.
I gather that C++ is the better language, but is there a wide demand for it outside of finance? There's great money in The City but I'm not sure that finance is my cup of tea. Doesn't Java have the whole smart-phone thing going for it, as well as a wider market in eBusiness?
I have done plenty of software development in various environments over the last 30-odd years, but nothing in widely-used contemporary languages, and I want to get back into development.
I have a number of offers for variously flavoured Comp Sci MSc courses but perhaps the key decision is whether to specialise in C++ or Java? It's an either-or decision.
I gather that C++ is the better language, but is there a wide demand for it outside of finance? There's great money in The City but I'm not sure that finance is my cup of tea. Doesn't Java have the whole smart-phone thing going for it, as well as a wider market in eBusiness?
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