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It will be substantially harder to find a programming job with an IT degree. If you want to be a systems admin, software salesman, or business analyst (which are all well paid and respectable professions) IT is the way to go.

Not many people actually understand this. All the engineers I've met are very practical people, and if they werent going to uni they would have made great tradesmen.

Real programming skills are learnt through personal projects and working.

There is a spectrum between machine code (ie binary) which computers understand and high level code with humans use. The higher you get the easier the language is and the less flexible it is. Java is a high level language, while C and C++ are closer to machine language.

C is a more 'real' programming languages, and java is a bit easier and more restricted. I think its better to start with java then work your way up to c. We do C in second year.

what degree do you do?

I originally went to USYD for an arts/science double degree, but then I took some programming classes which I fell in love with so I decided to do straight science with a major in CS. Already liked USYD so I didn't want to transfer to UNSW. The CS units are great. However they aren't scaled, so...

I do CS at USYD. Atmosphere is nice, and because there are so many arts students the STEM community is pretty tight knit. Engineering society and IT society are great.

ME will be easier than EE but much harder than SE or CS. SE and CS are by far the easiest engineering disciplines shortly followed by CivE. It's definitely something to consider, because these courses at university level can be truly brutal.

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EE will be significantly harder than SE and CS. Something to consider.