Watch Mike Acton’s CppCon 2014 talk on Data Oriented Design. His advice may not be at all applicable to whatever field you end up in (and it’s a deliberately co

Watch Mike Acton’s CppCon 2014 talk on Data Oriented Design. His advice may not be at all applicable to whatever field you end up in (and it’s a deliberately contentious talk) but IMO it’s essential for a systems level programmer to have enough understanding of the related concepts to be able to argue about them convincingly.