Well, I just mentioned the educations I think is where you should go if you want to be programmers.
Though whatever you do, study enough to get the grades needed to be able to choose whichever education you wish when you have the chance.
Most master of science educations demands a 17-20 average grade (with the bonus included there). Try your best to reach at least that high and you won’t regret it.
Yes, I understood ^^ Was just explaining why im set on Skövde even if there are lots of other educations out there ^^ Appreciated that you brought up the social environments though since that is a very important factor for me 
Good advice as on grades as well, I appreciate it
Is that really the case in Sweden? In North America, it seems that one’s career path has the most impact. For example, a run-of-the-mill web programming job for a no-name company would be a career dead-end. Also there’s an unwritten expectation that a lot of self-learning on the side is necessary to keep up to date with technology.
I don’t think a Masters adds a lot of weight unless one wants to enter into R&D or academia.
Good story. Re schools, I went to one of the first 2 year courses in Finland on game making, and though it was a mixed bag covering all the facets, with little focus, it had a huge impact on understanding teamwork and getting hooked up with the local industry. At the end of the course was workexperience, and I was lucky to go into a startup for three years to build some skills. The school was instrumental in connecting me up to IGDA Finland, and though it didn’t do wonders for my coding skills it was very succesful, about 75% of the class found jobs in the industry in various positions. ( I didn’t go to Uni, selftaught all the way. )
There’s always a chance of growing even with little education within smaller companies there you are the only one whom got any knowledge in the field, though if there is a larger company with more than 3-14 employees within programming then you need a heavy education background to be able to go anywhere.
In general it’s the same in Sweden, though the difference is that there exist educations in Sweden which are named “civil engineering” though for computer science and other fields. Said education is a lot heavier and much more practical knowledge then within a usual master education. Though as said education doesn’t exist outside Scandinavia, Germany and Canada the correct term to use when discussing with foreigners are “master of computer science”.
You need that kind of education to get anywhere in Sweden within programming in any larger corporation.
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Not interested. That was a joke. >_>
Now that’s more like it! NOT!!!
The part about the girl made me laugh. It sounded like it was going so well and you were about to say how this girl changed your life, then suddenly!
Brought a tear to my eye xD
I’m a newbie to Java still and I’ve only been learning on and off over the past few months. Before Java I used Game Maker which I’ve used for 2-3 years and still continue to play with it so I can kinda relate to you there.
You’ve actually gave me the motivation to make a visual novel - better than Pong right? 
Anyhow, you’re right, the people here are amazing! I’ve learned a lot during my short time here and I’ll be sticking around.
@Hazzy: Glad to be able to spread some joy in the world
Nice, a little motivation is pretty much all that is needed to get a lot of coding done! I found it really fun to make a visual novel, so yeah, it’s better than pong It teached me a lot about graphics programming, swing, awt, threading and a lot of core principles. What it didn’t teached me was how to program object oriented (My old visual novel is about 4 gigantic classes xD). But I’d say it’s a great way to learn so go for it mate! 
Good luck and happy coding mate!
//Kurten