delt0r’s not a beginning programmer so it makes sense to work the way he thinks he should and then adapt if it’s not working out.
Agreed, I am only debating with Icecore not trying to advise delt0r. Also, I’m pretty sure delt0r had a firm plan before chucking in the day job.
Been visiting lots of universities. I’m hoping to get into Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Duke, and places like that obviously, but due to the likely reality of that not happening I’m thinking of attending Denver University or a few others for my undergrad. Make a name for myself there, get good contacts, then move on to some of the higher ranked universities for my masters. This is all best case scenario.
Then get a job, save, work, save, work some more, retire.
joy
I fully agree but i see so many abandoned games that i can’t silently pass thru,
You can be best programmer in universe but this not mean that you can complete started game
because games are not only programming - its game mechanics, game universe - art style, Art Images and animations, Level design, Story, user(players) easy understanding (usability), sounds and music
Without even small understanding what you gonna do and how – we receive one more FEZ after 3-5 years in best case (because even FEZ earn money)
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=35689.0
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=18.0
Took J0’s advice for having multiple buttons so you are might be getting a game show with cats.
cats won’t be this horrendous in the final version
I learnt GWT touch events, and implemented them into SilenceEngine’s GWT backend. This is a pic of remote debugging in action:
https://i.imgur.com/8hEcPYL.png
Click the image for fullscreen. Anyone know how to test on a laptop through remote debugging?
Working on a jailbreak for iOS 5 for the lolz. Had an old iPod laying around so I learned a bit about iOS security and now I’m working on a vulnerability I found in MobileSafari.
Yay for JIT. Dynamic code signing is useful but insecure
Word of advice, as someone who has just left 14 years in a science career to start my own company. “Top” ranked university mostly matters to Americans in America and toss pots at Cambridge and Oxford. The rest of the world simply doesn’t give a crap. They care about your supervisor and what you did. In job interviews (I worked in IT in a previous life) you lose a lot of points with me and many people like me when you give the “ivy league” introduction. So pick the course/project and people first, as you will also be happier. Of course there are good odds the people you want to work with with are at these universities, just don’t be an ivy league wanker. We hate those guys 
And for the love of god don’t wait for retirement. Burn your wealth while you have your health to enjoy it! 
I mean imagine being rich and the only thing you really care about is if the kids are playing on your lawn.
Thanks! I had no intentions of using any ivy league status as a means to introduce myself in a grandiose manner; My older English cousin actually gave me the same advice! It’s good to hear that it’s not as big of a deal as it’s made out to be in America though from a much more experienced person. I appreciate it 
As for the money thing… Who knows what’s going to happen. Hopefully I net a decent paycheck at an entry level developer job. If I do I certainly intend to spoil myself every once and a while 
I doesn’t really matter in the US either. There are probably two good professional reasons to go to a big name university.
- You want to become a university prof (at a big name university).
- You want to become an “expert” for legal proceedings.
When I was working in the US I was surprised by how little CS Berkeley grads seemed to know. I’m not pissing on Berkeley cause I wouldn’t know, but the grads I talked too didn’t know much of anything. On the other hand Standford grads knew their shit. Again this could be pure chance.
Anyway…where you graduate from should only impact your first job. After that you shouldn’t put it on your resume/CV anyway (never put your GPA…don’t care what it is).
Agree wholeheartedly. It may not always have been the case now but a degree is no longer of any real value. Employers value actual experience ten times more than any degree subject, vocational or not. Given the choice between someone fresh out of university with a 3-year BSc Honours in Comp Sci and someone who has been doing the job for 3 years, I’d always hire the latter. Corroborated by my own experience - I learned more in 6 months on the job than in the entire Comp Sci degree I took. Ironically I skipped the database lectures and then spent the next 20 years doing SQL.
Nobody has ever even asked to see my degree certificate. I don’t even know where it is now.
Cas
True, but it affects your salary (at least in the first 5-10 years).
I’d expect it to be a difference of 20% (15% net), for the exact same work.
Also: reputation - it helps in meetings/negotiations when you have proof you’re not an idiot.
That may seem okay, but effectively it may mean if that you finish university, that after paying your fixed costs (rent/mortgage, utilities, food, etc) you have double or triple the amount of money to spend at frivolous things that take the edge off.
It’s a tough choice. University is investing in your future and it can be an expensive investment. If you learn too little, you lose. If you spend too much for what you’ve learned, you lose.
Not really expensive (for me personally only public transport cost) unless we consider time needed for university as well (but you can still spend your free time on personal projects, open source etc.). Personally I am looking at university as a good time to try different things, develop both in my main area of interest as well as other programming domains.
Maybe it’s a bit different in the Netherlands, but I usually find a significant difference in the way in which university-educated people think, compared to those that are not university-educated (also true when it comes to computer science). Many programmers that I meet that are not university-educated find it hard to transcend the immediate problem, to reason in abstractions. But I’m not sure which of “education” and “abstract thinking” is cause and which is effect.
However, many employers will assume someone without an university degree will find abstract thought difficult. This assumption will hurt you if you do not have a degree.
Also, time spent in university can also be a time of having fun, meeting new people, discovering yourself, learning new social skills, etc etc. Not everything in life revolves around success at work and having more moneys. There’s plenty of time allocated for that in life already.
What I’ve found is that a university education acts more like a filter for duds than a producer of brilliance.
Cas
@Mac70: “it can be” is an operative part of my statement. Like the mentioned
MIT - http://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html
or even more expensive and most probably haven’t heard of:
http://admissions.wustl.edu/scholarships-financial-aid/Pages/undergraduate-charges.aspx
I’ve got a surprising number of technical jobs over the years with my honours degree in… English Literature
To add to Grunnts’ point, students and teachers at uni are very interesting and you’ll probably enjoy meeting new friends and colleagues more than anything else. It’s one of the few real (non-internet) forums where you can have an in-depth technical debate about topics that you’re interested in. I’m still studying and it’s a high point in my week when I have a class with a knowledgeable teacher who can provide some new ways of looking at a problem that I wasn’t aware of.
University is not actually a big commitment since you can quit at any moment and start work. If you find that the benefit of what you’re learning is less than the cost of fees and missed wages then just take a break and start work.
But while you look for a job, you may as well start uni and see what it’s like. That way you’ll not have the fear of missing out.
I decided to provide my next “game” with art which is not pixel art. It is a first try and I am quite happy how it came out, even if the animation is suboptimal yet even if the animation is still suboptimal
-ClaasJG