Probably not assembly unless you're a glutton for punishment, or you want to write code for a specific processor (which might be a job-limiting step). Most of the applications that get built these days are web apps, so I would focus on acquiring skills in JEE. Do a scan of Dice and look at the skills that are needed for the type of job that you're targeting, and make sure that you have those skills. One of the drawbacks to most college courses is that they tend to leave out a lot of the basic day-to-day skills that you also need to get a job like:
- source code management systems (i.e. Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, etc), - build systems like Ant, and Maven - frameworks like Spring, Struts Also make sure that your web skills like Javascript, CSS and HTML/XHTML/HTML5 are up-to-scratch. Depending on the job search results you get, you might also look into JVM languages like Scala and Groovy, and web frameworks built on-top of the JVM like Grails. In addition to web development, mobile development is also a growing field. If you want to get into mobile development (in Java) then spending some time learning Android would be useful. Hope this helps, Mark On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:11 AM, TL <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a 47 year old who has jumped into programing after years of > totally unrelated work. I have a good few courses out of the way and > I've done well.Next semester im doing java 2 ,database,assembly > language, and computer intern. Considering I am a fossil of sorts I am > looking for guidence as to what I should be focusing on. Any thoughts > would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
