My friend wants me to change my major with him to computer engineering, because he wants to be a programmer. I did tell him that I would look into it, but I'm not sure how interested I am in programming. I have a general understanding of programming, but my question is:

If any of you have a career as a programmer, what do you do, and do you enjoy your job?

Also, if any of you just program for fun, what do you find fun about it?

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Be warned, by the definition of computer engineering you have a background in electronic engineering. This means that only a portion of your course will be dedicated towards programming and the vast majority of it towards electronics.

If you're looking at doing straight programming do computer science; this deals with every day programming.

Computer engineering deals with a lower level, i.e. if you have a radar built by an electronic engineer, you would for instance design the software to properly moderate and interpret the radar signals for the user from the hardware.

Having a degree in computer engineering also means you have the professional status of being an engineer which attaches a formal standard of quality that you have to produce. It's a very good degree to have and puts you in a good position to later progress into managerial positions of a company.

Lastly, to address your overall question: there really is a surplus of programmers, you need to be above the rest to make a decent career out of it. However, being a computer engineer you have unique skills that most other programmers won't have and this will help you extend yourself into further fields.

Hope this helped.

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Thanks for the clarification, I will pass this on to my friend.

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Well lets see. I own my own web-firm, which is doing great (and was awesome through this past recession); however, the only programming that my firm does is for strictly the web and/or for internet capable devices.

To be honest, just computer programming is a waste of your time and money. If you guys didn't think ahead your far far behind. The computer (lets say a PC) is at the point to which it should be commercially quantized (i.e. Qubit Processing).

'And its not!?..

Reason:

The computer as we know it is becoming a distant memory-- it will simply turn into a basic, low impact, display/response terminal. As in, a computer which uses an operating system is now currently outdated, because there are operating systems which work on the internet.

So I wonder, which will come first--the quantum internet, or the quantum computer?

well, seeing as that the internet is an intangible network of computers, I suppose if the quantum computer was first, it would soon be last. As the internet provides for limitless expansion--something a physical object can't.

So programming either way is COMPLETELY BADASS SHIT. But if you're really wanting to make a living from it....

PROGRAM
ON
THE
WEB
IT F#&$ING ROCKS

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ALTHOUGH, what this dude says about the competition, is absolutely right!

The only way to make it in this type of industry is:

BE FIRST & BE SMARTER

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mySQL / PHP / ASP / PYTHON / PERL / RAZOR / ADO
PROFESSIONAL /SEO / SMO / SEM / EXPERIENCED
What ya need?