need your advise

[ozone]

HI, i am a newbie in c++ but i just wanna ask something before i proceed. it been bothering ma mind all this days. i am practically a hardware and networking admin. i do install wired,wireless, Vsat , e.t.c but i just love programming and am looking on which part should i go. you know like the cyber security. though am studying i.c.t in ma school.
so my question is "is there any combination or field that join networking with C++?" if there is what are the kind of things i am suppose to be doing, should i continue with the basic or drop it and start with the advice given? thats all i have

THANKS ALOT,
WARM REGARDS

[Cubbi]

I'd say the telecommunications industry could be the best fit: they push their hardware and the OS to the limit, handling every imaginable network, and (at the competitive edge) it's all C++. But even your average market making financial company (another C++ niche) might have a few hundred servers handling 10k-50k simultaneous connections each, across the Internet or some proprietary pipe, just to feed market data. It's not that uncommon.

[Hadar]

I think that the best answer I could give you is to download, learn, and use networking SDKs (after you know the basic syntax of the language of course, it's a must).

[ozone]

alright guys thanks alot. i do really appreciate it.

[ozone]

but @hadar where and how will i learn networking SDKs can you please put me through?

[Hadar]

Not a problem, just Google it.

But I really recommend you to check this out:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118945/best-c-c-network-library

Edit:

As a side note, I want to mention that someone once told me that being a good developer isn't about creating stuff from scratch, but being familiar with as much as libraries, frameworks, classes - you name it.

[ozone]

hmmmm!! thats sensational. @hadar you are the bomb.
THANKS a ton...