Same situation as you. We have Stroustrup himself here at Texas A&M, so all anybody ever uses is C++[0]. My intro teacher to 121 actually told us to us the Wate

Same situation as you. We have Stroustrup himself here at Texas A&M, so all anybody ever uses is C++[0]. My intro teacher to 121 actually told us to us the Waterfall method by name. All anybody wants to do is go into the video game industry/play flash dames. Pretty awful, but you can teach yourself a surprising amount of CS. I learned enough JavaScript that some of my side projects got me an internship at a "big-name" company. Also, it seems to me that the people who are ridiculously successful at MIT would probably have been ridiculously successful most anywhere else. Find some smart friends, stop thinking so highly of yourself, and get back to learning.[1]"The best programmer is a humble programmer."[2] [0]-High point of the class: Stroustrup was guest lecturing in class a month ago. I had seen on HN a few days before he had responded directly to one of Linus' attacks on C++. I raised my hand and asked him how he dealt with guys like Linus. He got all flustered and just went "Linus is a immature fool!" and then went on preach for C++0x. [1] Read Godel Escher Bach. It will put you in your intellectual place. [2] Wish I knew who said that first.