How much do you guys get paid/hour?

Summer placement, used C programming skills learnt on my degree. I was working primarily in C and assembler languages. I can also code in Python, C++ and a couple of others.

Cool, doing a bit of Python myself. Did you learn all your programming skills on your degree or did you have knowledge prior.

Well I learnt C on my degree and then decided to learn a few more. Assembler was basically thrown at me at work... I had to learn fast.

Was it easy to learn or did it take you some time? I've been told that once your understand one language the others become really easy.

I found it pretty easy to learn personally, it seems to be something that people either get or they don't... a friend of mine is hopeless at programming and effectively copies my code for computing projects...

You've been told wrong... If someone presented me with say lisp or binary lambda calculus I would have no idea what the hell I was doing.... Lisp is a really weird one... functions recursively call themselves until a terminating condition is reached... If you understand C then C++, C# and a whole load of other languages become fairly accessible. Or just getting a really good understanding of how computers work - then it is all down to syntax (for which some languages is near impossible - look up the wiki article entitled 'esoteric languages' and look at chef, brain**** and piet in particular.)

True, I was just talking about the general languages such C, C++ and C#. Are you going back to finish your last year? What stream of work are you looking to get into once you finish? Also what University are you studying at?

I just started my second year looking to get into banking/finance, I'm at Oxford.

I'm 16 working in Matalan and getting paid £5.03 per hour, I work in London.


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I have a placement (unofficially), and I was just wondering how my wages compared with the likes of the supermarkets, fast food places, retail shops etc... (ie: general "student" jobs)

Could you say



My only interest here is that I'm being nosy

17
£4.69 ph
4 hours a week + overtime
Well known clothing store with the name of a bird

I know it goes up to £5.40 when I turn 18 but that's all I know

Oh Oxford you must of got very good A-Levels to get in there (I wasn't clever enough to get anywhere near Oxford ). If you want to do Banking/Finance how come you doing Physics? I thought you would have done something like Economics.