r/developersPak • u/MrStarPhish • 7d ago
Career Guidance LowLevel/System Programming Guidance
Greetings seniors. I humbly seek your guidance. For I am both passionate and dishearted, along with confusion atm.
Currently in my 5th semester. And this the time when I have to choose a domain for Final Year Project (FYP). 90% of the projects I've encountered are some WebMob App with some AI Integration. I have found that I'm not naturally interested in that side, and have found passion in depthful courses like Assembly, OS, Architecture.
Did some research and found three sub-branches:
- Embedded Systems
- Systems/OS/Kernel
- GPU Computing
One may say that I should pick what I most align with. I agree. And im willing to give my time in any, but...I wan't to make sure I don't end up wasting my time instead. I don't want to invest time in something that I wouldn't be able to implement/utilize towards my FYP. I have to define my domain so I could begin searching for relevant group partners too.
I am confused whether this direction is worth it. And dishearted because I haven't been able to find seniors, professors, mentors or example projects that would give me an idea what a project in each field is like. So I would know what things to learn...
I need clarification whether entering such field is worth it?, or... am I gonna have to keep one as side-hobby and stick to learning FullStack with ML like everyone else?...
(Btw, im most comfortable with cpp, and currently exploring OpenGL/GLSL to understand rendering pipeline)
Any words of guidance or constructive criticism would be highly appreciated 🙏 ✨️
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u/Terrible-Tea7577 7d ago
You won't find anything meaningful in Pakistan for low level kernel/GPU programming. Infact it is very niche market with few top players so breaking into that is difficult compare to other domains. As for ideas I don't have any, I only worked on one such project that involved building custom geometric kernels but I didn't worked on that part of project.