> You don't have a program that works one day and then and then suddenly the next day "if statements" aren't working.

I know you're talking about the fixed nature of programming logic, but this phrase is surfacing some repressed timezone debugging memories.

What do you do now that involves C++ if you don’t mind me asking? I too have a EE degree but have been doing web dev for the last few years, I would like to get back into maybe doing lower level software development or work on something I can use my degree somewhat on.

I do graphics programming on a game engine

Oh yeah, those Verilog courses are like the next level up from nand2tetris in wrapping your head around those kinds of things. I got a lot of mileage out of writing some automated scripts to run through Xcelium's interactive shell so I could get a faster debug loop going with them.

The craziness in software starts at the systems level, especially distributed systems. The madness of debugging distributed systems (at present) shouldn't be underestimated :)