Just some background info about twomers that may help him
get better answers - he's in my college course
We're studying Electrical & Electronic Engineering - We've had
two (introductory) programming courses - C last year, C++ this
year. Also, as part of the work placement, the main detail we
have been supplied with is that the company he is looking at
working for wants C/C++ skills in particular. Most of the
programming type work our industry involves would be in
embedded systems and device programming - (although like all
courses, they don't teach us half of what we will end up learning
at work
).
As for my advice twomers, you know yourself how creative you
are, try looking at different implementations for some of your
programs. For a particular area of study, I'd say you might want
to look into optimization techniques - I don't have any resources
to suggest though, perhaps someone here will?
Maybe look at PIC programming (Using C) - remember
one of the guys last year who did a PIC project in C? You could
get the compiler from him I'd say - if you asked nicely!