College/University??

[RobertsonaIsBack]

i make 700gs basically eery day but its those who have less who r happier )))

[argo15]

A lot math in programming is linear algebra, assuming your doing something fun =p

[Iam90]

Originally Posted by bender5

Yeah man, people here are smart, I'm just saying no one gives me credibility because I "don't look like I can do it", so when people question me it gets under my skin.

I have plenty of corporate connections, but I don't want to get a white collar job like that, I am a self made man and will continue to be.

Most people can't do that, but I can. I can read body language better than anyone I know, and it really helps me in the situations I come across.

I literally could get ANY job if I wanted to, but I love what I do more than anything, so it's what I do.

And as far as the whole 15 year old stud thing goes, I don't go out and fool around as much as possible, but whenever I try, I score. I don't like shallow people at all

ya bro i'll see u pioneering alternative energy technology in a coupla years with all your knowledge about physics u obtained from the streets

[Iam90]

i can LITERALLY get any job i want. this is demonstrated by the fact that i totally know what LITERALLY means. ha ha ha

[RobertsonaIsBack]

what a dumbass jesus

[Izzy]

I think all you would need to know for game design is c#, c++ and direct x API's as well as having used visual studio and understanding the general idea of working with a team of people on a project.

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[Superfreak04]

Originally Posted by Izzy

I think all you would need to know for game design is c#, c++ and direct x API's as well as having used visual studio and understanding the general idea of working with a team of people on a project.

Woops, we are on a new page.

I know none of that stuff, haha.

[leonid]

You don't have to have in-depth knowledge about actual coding if you want to only study game design.

[MrRubix]

Game design is a pretty broad term. You can actually design layouts/ideas/integrations/interfaces/art/etc without doing any actual coding.

[dAnceguy117]

Originally Posted by Superfreak04

I know none of that stuff, haha.

that's what college is for! as well as the internet.

[MrGiggles]

Originally Posted by Superfreak04

Not sure what RIT is haha, and so I assume game design is not your major then?

Rochester Institute of Technology, but yeah it is my major. :P By the way I had minimal coding experience (I could do hello, world! in Java and diddled in php for a weekend) when school started, and I pulled through just dandy. I met a friend who had coded for a year pre-college, but we passed his area of knowledge in about 4 weeks. Prior experience is no issue. Day 1 starts with the assumption you have no programming knowledge.

Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

a lot of programming concepts translate fairly easily. there will always be a lot to learn. that's the fun part

I'm pretty jealous, señor giggles. sounds like a blast.

Dude I ****ing love it and I have no regrets at all. So far.

Game design is a pretty broad term. You can actually design layouts/ideas/integrations/interfaces/art/etc without doing any actual coding.

p much this, I've always though of game design as two subgroups, art and coding. Not that there aren't people who do both or neither.

Courses here vary from Game Software Development, the core coding portion of the degree, all the way to the other end of the spectrum, 2D animation and 3D animation where you don't have to write a line of code if you so prefer.

[U.N. Owen]

Freshman computer science major at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

./nick Stereotypical_Forum_User

[Relambrien]

Sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University, over here with Wineandbread (hi from the OGS SC2 thread!) and leonid. Computer Science major here.

Also leonid, holy **** 251 was hard, but 212 is somehow harder ;_;

That said, anyone here looking into CS or programming should take a course in functional programming. It's amazing the kind of thinking you learn how to do when you need to turn 50-line programs into 3 line functions.

fun addSum L = foldr (fn (a,b) => a + b) 0 L

Sums all of the elements of a list of integers in just one command. So much shorter than

int sum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) sum += arr[i];
return sum;

[JD_Flava]

sophomore at sul ross state university, comp sci

[MrRubix]

What is that, ML?

Just wait until you tear into Haskell. The one-liners you can pull... holy crap.

[leonid]

It's SML. The hardest and the most annoying thing about that course (15212) is that you need to be able to mathematically prove whether a given SML code works as intended.

Also, rubix if you are interested in coding short one-liners, check out Golfscript:

# Summing a list of integers L
L{+}*

[MrRubix]

Yowza.

I've unfortunately never been very good at codegolfing. I'm used to coding within a certain frame of medium length. If code is too short, it's ultimately harder to modify if it's something complex. On the other hand, code that's longwinded and wasteful is a pain to sift through.

[Vendetta21]

I have 3.5 years of a business degree from CityU/UW and was variously a supervisor/analyst at Boeing until I realized I hated business and quit and also put college on hold. Now I am waiting for FAFSA next year to go back to school for something that I actually enjoy thinking about/doing and then getting a teaching certificate.

[Superfreak04]

Originally Posted by MrGiggles

Rochester Institute of Technology, but yeah it is my major. :P By the way I had minimal coding experience (I could do hello, world! in Java and diddled in php for a weekend) when school started, and I pulled through just dandy. I met a friend who had coded for a year pre-college, but we passed his area of knowledge in about 4 weeks. Prior experience is no issue. Day 1 starts with the assumption you have no programming knowledge.

Dude I ****ing love it and I have no regrets at all. So far.
p much this, I've always though of game design as two subgroups, art and coding. Not that there aren't people who do both or neither.

Courses here vary from Game Software Development, the core coding portion of the degree, all the way to the other end of the spectrum, 2D animation and 3D animation where you don't have to write a line of code if you so prefer.

In that case I would probably want to learn about both. I'm skeptical on both ends because I feel like I'm not that good of an artist and wouldn't do so well even though I would be trained but I feel like I wouldn't be able to make anything like Darkshark can haha. And for the coding aspect, it seems very tricky and hard to learn, and not sure if I want to code a lot of stuff for the rest of my life lol. xD

[iironiic]

Lol, so many math and computer science majors.