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I might have found a way to gear my career to playing video games!

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Rando:

--- Quote from: shateredsoul on December 16, 2010, 12:47:43 am ---
Turns out the guy I met, Teale Fristoe, made this game. It's called, As I Lay Dying, it's a pixel art game. It addresses pretty interesting and dark, but real issues. A fun platformer.

http://www.digyourowngrave.com/as-i-lay-dying/

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At work, so I can't check this out, but based on the "As I Lay Dying" poem by Robert Frost, where the guy is lying in the desert and birds overhead are arguing about which parts of him their going to eat first?  If so, great piece and subject for a game, IMHO! :)

shateredsoul:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on December 16, 2010, 01:00:08 am ---
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on December 15, 2010, 10:30:26 pm ---I'm really excited. I'm also taking a java intro class, figure if I'm going to study this I better know it.

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Take it from someone who made the grave mistake of studying a "satellite" language first.

Skip the Java and go straight to a language like C. Once you learn C, you'll get a working knowledge of languages like C++, C# (to some degree) and naturally, Java. Once you get the syntax, all you need to learn is the dialect.

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but everyone told me to start with java or python :( hmm, i'm probably going to audit (sit in) a intro to java class.

@Rando, yes based on that. So you play this girl, after the guy dies on a hike she has to take the body back home. If you leave the body alone too long, crows start to peck at it. Not very graphic (it's based on pixel art), but I liked it a lot actually.

SavannahLion:
Yeah, I was told the same thing.

There's nothing wrong with java. But as an intro for someone wants to be serious in the profession, don't, you'll learn java anyways and learning it now before a root language would be a serious distraction.

shateredsoul:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 16, 2010, 04:00:13 pm ---If you want to be a programmer, I'd suggest dropping out of a real university now and going to community college.  Get the education that you'll really need and get out there in the industry.

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I don't want to be a programmer. I want to be a researcher who studies best ways for kids to learn programming. For example, some ppl study how to get more girls interested in programming careers. I wouldn't be actually developing the software, but I should have some basic knowledge of how programming works so I can talk to people who will be designing the software and to see if the kids are actually progressing. Some software that has been used for this includes kodu, scratch, alice, game maker, and more.

Your point though brings up a good issue though, if our best coders are self taught or learn best when at community college, what are university classes not doing right? I guess i'll find out. I heard back from the guy, he's fine with me sitting in. Not sure if I want to do the homework yet, but that's probably the only way I'll really learn it. Maybe i'll just take a community college course this summer in C.

SavannahLion:
That's actually pretty cool. I remember how maddingly frustrating being eight years old and writing  code with only a booklet and no guidance.

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