jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) (03/26/91)
TO AVOID UNNECESSARILY WASTED BANDWIDTH, PLEASE REPLY VIA E-MAIL! I am going to be looking for a job pretty soon as an MS-DOS programmer. I have a lot of experience, but unfortunately a lot of it is personal experience, i.e. not classroom or company experience (when was the last time YOU saw DOS4096 -- Advanced Interrupt Programming in DOS?). What I am wondering is whether I should continue pursuing a degree in this rather disgusting CIS programming at the University of Florida or whether I should just hit the job market. Thus.... 1. What is the state of the market in regards for MS-DOS programmers? Assume capable enough to program in MSC or TC, BC++ and some 80x86 assembly. 2. What are the average pay scales available? 3. How important or useful is a Master's Degree? 4. Finally, are there any good colleges out there that teach useful microcomputer and/or state of the art computing? I want to learn UNIX, X-windows, MS-Windows, advanced graphics programming (modeling and rendering), PHIGS, and OS/2 programming, and would like to concentrate my studies in that area. Unfortunately, the wonderful University of Florida's abysmal CIS program concentrates on VAX Fortran/Pascal/Cobol which is of no use to me in the "real" world. They just STARTED teaching C this semester! Thanks for any replies, Brian