The engineers surveyed include not just startup employees, but also freelancers and employees at more traditional IT firms. The highest-paying programming languages were:

1. C++: $110,000
2. Python: ~$102,000
3. C: $100,000
4. AWS: ~$95,000
5. C#: ~$92,000
6. Ruby: $90,000
7. Java: $90,000
8. SQL: $80,000
9. JavaScript: ~$78,000
10. Objective C: ~$76,000
11. PHP: ~$76,000
12. CSS: ~$64,000
13. JavaScript (design): $60,000
14. CSS (design): $60,000
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Harold Ekeh is a 17-year-old high school senior who has reached unbelievable success for a boy of his age. The talented Nigerian teenager has not just been accepted by one Ivy League university; he was accepted by all eight.

Nigerian Teen Accepted By 8 Prestigious Universities

Harold Ekeh

Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, and are ranked among the best universities worldwide.

Now Ekeh has to make one of the most important decisions in his life: choose a university where he wants to study. Speaking with CNN journalists, the boy already confessed:

“I am leaning toward Yale. I competed at Yale for Model UN, and I like the passion people at Yale had.”

The boy added that some of the Yale students he met became his friends and mentors. They were giving him useful advice on the college application process. Now Ekeh is trying to pay back the help he received and do the same thing for others. He has founded a college mentoring programme at his school, Elmont Memorial High School on Long Island in the New York City suburbs. The aim of the programme is to help students to get into top universities.
But let’s get to know this unique boy better!

American dream

Ekeh was born in Nigeria and went to the United States when he was eight years old. He wrote his main college essay about the struggle to adjust, including being clueless in US history classes at school. The boy said that he was repeatedly asking his parents why they had moved.

“We had a fairly comfortable life in Nigeria, but they told me we moved to America for the opportunities like the educational opportunities,” he recalled.
Nigerian Teen Accepted By 8 Prestigious Universities

Harold Ekeh in childhood

Ekeh’s talent, hard work and strong desire helped him to reach his dream. Moreover, the boy made his parents, school and community proud of him.

“I am very humbled by this. It’s not just for me, but for my school and community. We can accomplish great things here”, he said.

A passion for science

Ekeh wants to major in neurobiology or chemistry in college and later become a doctor and, ultimately, a neurosurgeon. He was named a 2015 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist earlier this year for his research on how the acid DHA can slow Alzheimer’s.

For Ekeh, the research topic is very personal. His grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was 11. One of his proudest moments was running home to tell his mother and aunts about the breakthroughs he was finding with DHA.

“When other kids would say, ‘I want to be a superhero or police officer,’ I would say, ‘I want to know what is on the inside of us,'” he said.

Nigerian Teen Accepted By 8 Prestigious Universities

The key to success

Outside of the labaratory, Ekeh directs a youth choir at his church and plays the drums. He speaks Igbo and Spanish. He is extremely proud of acing the history exam despite his early struggles with the subject.

John Capozzi, the principal of Elmont High School, said that Ekeh is “one of the most humble young men I’ve ever had the opportunity to meet.”

Ekeh will spend the coming weeks visiting all the universities before making his final decision. His advice to other high school students is simple: “Like my parents always told us, the secret to success is unbridled resolve.”

just understand yourself and re scheduled your plans

its just a matter a decision and liking what you do

1.2 What Is Visual Basic .NET?
Visual Basic .NET is the next generation of Visual Basic, but it is also a significant departure from
previous generations. Experienced Visual Basic 6 developers will feel comfortable with Visual
Basic .NET code and will recognize most of its constructs. However, Microsoft has made some
changes to make Visual Basic .NET a better language and an equal player in the .NET world. These
include such additions as a Classkeyword for defining classesand an Inheritskeyword for object
inheritance, among others. Visual Basic 6 code can't be compiled by the Visual Basic .NET compiler
without significant modification. The good news is that Microsoft has provided a migration tool to
handle the task (mostly, anyway). Code migration is explained in Appendix A. The Visual Basic .NET
language itself is detailed in Chapter 2.
Over the last several months I have spent almost all of my time playing with .NET and writing Visual
Basic .NET programs. As a user of Visual Basic since Version 4, I can tell you that I am pleased with
this new technology and with the changes that have been made to Visual Basic. In my opinion,
Microsoft has done it right.
1.3 An Example Visual Basic .NET Program
The first program to write is the same for all languages: Print the words hello, world
—Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language
It has become a tradition for programming books to begin with a hello, worldexample. The idea is that
entering and running a program—any program—may be the biggest hurdle faced by experienced
programmers approaching a new platform or language. Without overcoming this hurdle, nothing else
can follow. This chapter contains three such examples: one that creates a console application, one
that creates a GUI application, and one that creates a browser-based application. Each example
stands alone and can be run as is. The console and GUI applications can both be compiled from the
command line (yes, Visual Basic .NET has a command-line compiler!). The browser-based application
requires a computer running Internet Information Server (IIS).
1.3.1 hello, world
This is the world's favorite programming example, translated to Visual Basic .NET:
Imports System
Public Module Hello
Public Sub Main( )
Console.WriteLine("hello, world"
End Sub
End Module
This version of hello, worldis a console application --it displays its output in a Windows commandprompt window. To compile this program, enter it using any text editor, such as Windows's Notepad,
save it in a file whose name ends with .vb, such as Hello.vb, and compile it from the Windows
command line with this command:

such is life

1.2 What Is Visual Basic .NET?
Visual Basic .NET is the next generation of Visual Basic, but it is also a significant departure from
previous generations. Experienced Visual Basic 6 developers will feel comfortable with Visual
Basic .NET code and will recognize most of its constructs. However, Microsoft has made some
changes to make Visual Basic .NET a better language and an equal player in the .NET world. These
include such additions as a Classkeyword for defining classesand an Inheritskeyword for object
inheritance, among others. Visual Basic 6 code can't be compiled by the Visual Basic .NET compiler
without significant modification. The good news is that Microsoft has provided a migration tool to
handle the task (mostly, anyway). Code migration is explained in Appendix A. The Visual Basic .NET
language itself is detailed in Chapter 2.
Over the last several months I have spent almost all of my time playing with .NET and writing Visual
Basic .NET programs. As a user of Visual Basic since Version 4, I can tell you that I am pleased with
this new technology and with the changes that have been made to Visual Basic. In my opinion,
Microsoft has done it right.
1.3 An Example Visual Basic .NET Program
The first program to write is the same for all languages: Print the words hello, world
—Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language
It has become a tradition for programming books to begin with a hello, worldexample. The idea is that
entering and running a program—any program—may be the biggest hurdle faced by experienced
programmers approaching a new platform or language. Without overcoming this hurdle, nothing else
can follow. This chapter contains three such examples: one that creates a console application, one
that creates a GUI application, and one that creates a browser-based application. Each example
stands alone and can be run as is. The console and GUI applications can both be compiled from the
command line (yes, Visual Basic .NET has a command-line compiler!). The browser-based application
requires a computer running Internet Information Server (IIS).
1.3.1 hello, world
This is the world's favorite programming example, translated to Visual Basic .NET:
Imports System
Public Module Hello
Public Sub Main( )
Console.WriteLine("hello, world"
End Sub
End Module
This version of hello, world is a console application --it displays its output in a Windows commandprompt window. To compile this program, enter it using any text editor, such as Windows's Notepad,
save it in a file whose name ends with .vb, such as Hello.vb, and compile it from the Windows
command line with this command:
it might look a little bit difficult but i tell you its just freaky easy. you will be updated and you will soon find out programming is not as difficult as you think. if others can do it, why cant u?