Apart from school, let me give you an advice. If you have a brain that can handle multiple levels of OO in c++ across multiple threads; keeping multupltformne

Apart from school, let me give you an advice. If you have a brain that can handle multiple levels of OO in c++ across multiple threads; keeping multupltformness in mind and crunching out optimized code with all that you learned in your data structure classes, stick with C++. The pay is way better (like three times more here in Toronto) than anything web or app related, the working hours are more sane, and stuff are usually way more planned in advance. You'll have way better life sticking to the shops that need your engineering coding skills. Think carefully and be ready to wait out few months for your first job when you graduate. Charging jobs after is hard. App/web/testing shops will take a decent low level engineer any day of the week. A financial/embedded/engineering company will think long and hard before they hire a web dev for a backend/driver team dev. In this proffesion you are beign paid to think. Why not approach your career choices similarly? 'everybody making fun of c++' is a non issue. You may as well worry about what wasn't cool in kindergarten. C++ was and is an industry standard. On a unrelated note: this post will reflect the HN community by their impulsive up/down voting it ;)