Chit Chat Thread

[Kuraudo]

Yeah XHTML and Stuff is simple, I do it for a living.

http://www.joshcaldwellmusic.com

I don't try to get too flashy, but keep it simple and readable

(ps. If you to this site and check out his myspace, he has a video of him playing Aerith's Theme on guitar)

 

[Madame Mayor]

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[/quote]I actually do play around with XHTML in my spare time and 'had' a copy of Abode CS3, which recently asploded and reinstalling doesn't seem to work. That's what the little link in my siggy goes to. It's nothing great, my sites are meant to be more pretty than professional, but it's a hobby. XP And we are actually learning this stuff in this program. We just started HTML, CSS (aced those tests) and PHP (knew at least the stuff he taught us in one hour).

I know a few people with programming jobs, and my father is Mr. I-know-everyone so that's always helped. My real foot in the door is my brother who works for Koei as an entry-level programmer (started at 40k). His game's been announced so now I can tell people, he's working on Samurai Warriors 3 (nov 09) in Japan right now. By the time I graduate from this program, he'll have been there for 3 years and will be back in Canada. So, I'm hoping he'll be able to give me a good word or two when I apply there (they hire entry level programmers every year, start process in Jan, hire in June).
[size=small]@[/size][size=small]Kuraudo:[/size][size=small]I've seen him on youtube playing that. XD[/size]

 

[Kuraudo]

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[quote author=null link=topic=29.msg553#msg553 date=1228350687]
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[/quote]I actually do play around with XHTML in my spare time and 'had' a copy of Abode CS3, which recently asploded and reinstalling doesn't seem to work. That's what the little link in my siggy goes to. It's nothing great, my sites are meant to be more pretty than professional, but it's a hobby. XP And we are actually learning this stuff in this program. We just started HTML, CSS (aced those tests) and PHP (knew at least the stuff he taught us in one hour).

I know a few people with programming jobs, and my father is Mr. I-know-everyone so that's always helped. My real foot in the door is my brother who works for Koei as an entry-level programmer (started at 40k). His game's been announced so now I can tell people, he's working on Samurai Warriors 3 (nov 09) in Japan right now. By the time I graduate from this program, he'll have been there for 3 years and will be back in Canada. So, I'm hoping he'll be able to give me a good word or two when I apply there (they hire entry level programmers every year, start process in Jan, hire in June).
[size=small]@[/size][size=small]Kuraudo:[/size][size=small]I've seen him on youtube playing that. XD[/size]
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Wow Nice about your brother. Yeah Josh is a real life friend of mine, I play piano and a bit of guitar, he plays Drum, piano, and guitar. Sings too. Very nice guy.

I always wanted to work on Storyboard for video games, but that's like impossible nowadays.

 

[Madame Mayor]

From what my brother's told me, entry programming jobs are a good foot in the door for other departments, because it shows you can do the hard work and you get to know people. Storyboards need to be done by somebody...
I'd love to write the music, but trying to get that job without an actual music degree and a million exp in music jobs is even more impossible. But that's okay, cause it's been a while since I wrote anything anyways.

 

[Nocturne]

ugh I have finals next week. I got into Pharmacy School this year. It's a ton of work, but it will be worth it in the end.

 

[Cthulhu]

Most self-respecting programmers would cringe at a sysadmin or networking job (with good reason, there's zero intellectual reward)

Not to mention I studied for that one during my previous education (associate level in US terms), and there's hardly any work in that area at that level (or well, there is no demand for it, but that's because employers have too high standards).

Finally, be ready to move around. A lot of coding jobs are contract-based now, meaning you get hired to complete one major project and then move on.

I'd consider that a Good Thing when you're a programmer slash software developer, keeps you flexible, learning, etc. Especially if you have to switch languages or environments a lot - I'm nowhere near properly experienced, but I notice myself apply stuff I've learned in one language / environment onto others.

We just started HTML, CSS (aced those tests) and PHP (knew at least the stuff he taught us in one hour).

olz echo 'y halo thar'; !1!1!

followed by for ($i = 0; $i < 9000 + 1; i++) { echo 'Y HALO THAR!!!<br />\n'; }. fgj.

On websites, I'd be fine with programming websites on the side, but it seems I cba / don't have / don't want to invest the time, . On design, I'd rather not, I find it far too frustrating and I can't really get something to look good.

On getting one's foot in one's door, I'm kinda hoping they'll want to hire me after my internship, but seeing that the company I'll probably be working for (nothing certain yet) seems to work with a lot of temporary people, I'm not entirely sure that'll happen. But I'm fairly sure I can get a job at over nine thousand places, and if not, I could always become independent slash freelance.

 

[Madame Mayor]

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olz echo 'y halo thar'; !1!1!

followed by for ($i = 0; $i < 9000 + 1; i++) { echo 'Y HALO THAR!!!<br /> '; }. fgj.[/quote]Ya, that stuff. XP The first half of that class of Linux stuff (hard cause he sucks at teaching... even people who have jobs working with Linux were having trouble), and the second half's been just that stuff I listed... *high fives self*

 

[looneymoon]

Frick, exams suck. The closest one I have is Classical History. I have to learn 3 plays off by heart, 200 years worth of Athenian history, memorized map and not not mention important dates, ancient terms, battles, people and artifacts. Sometimes, i forget why I enjoy this stuff.

Then right after I have an Archaeology exam, which is the most boring shit ever. I seriously thought it'd be all cool like Indiana Jones, but nooo... it has to be all about the use of stone tools and the formation of agriculture and junk. -___-

but hey, winter holidays will be a nice, long break

 

[Madame Mayor]

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Then right after I have an Archaeology exam, which is the most boring shit ever. I seriously thought it'd be all cool like Indiana Jones, but nooo... it has to be all about the use of stone tools and the formation of agriculture and junk. -___-[/quote]
I have a friend with a similar complaint, though she still plans on making a career out of it.

Plus, when you watch the school scenes in those movies it doesn't seem like a fun class. Well, except for the hot teacher.

 

[looneymoon]

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I have a friend with a similar complaint, though she still plans on making a career out of it.

Plus, when you watch the school scenes in those movies it doesn't seem like a fun class. Well, except for the hot teacher.
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I can't stand sitting in a 50-minute lecture. I don't know how anyone could ever consider making a career in the field unless they were totally passionate about it.

Now, if my prof looked like Harrison Ford, and wore the whole Indie getup, then maybe I'd enjoy it a bit more

 

[Madame Mayor]

I have 3-hr lectures at college. If I didn't have my computer in front of me to do things like post here... I'd go insane
And this is a subject I like...

 

[Cthulhu]

Lectures are the suck, and luckily, I haven't had any in nearly two years, . And those I did have were 90 minutes tops.

 

[looneymoon]

I'm at university, and all my lectures are roughly 50 minutes long. It's good because they go by really quick, but it also makes them seem that much more pointless to go to.

 

[Dumb Apple]

I've had three hour lectures before. It was a night class, and all the teacher did was stand in the front of the room and talk. xD Like mentioned, I'm glad I had my computer with me. Most of my classes are either an hour, or an hour and a half long.

@.@ Luckily most of my "lecture" classes are Honors, where they encourage discussion instead of just sitting and listening. I have a course entitled "Ethics in Computer Gaming and Cinema" that promises to be entertaining next quarter.

 

[Cookie Monster]

I should have taken a few courses in programming. Sounds like rather interesting. :<

Anyway, I'm going to go create some "Favorites" threads. So, be ready to increase your poastkunts, fgj.

 

[Madame Mayor]

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I've had three hour lectures before. It was a night class, and all the teacher did was stand in the front of the room and talk. xD Like mentioned, I'm glad I had my computer with me. Most of my classes are either an hour, or an hour and a half long.

@.@ Luckily most of my "lecture" classes are Honors, where they encourage discussion instead of just sitting and listening. I have a course entitled "Ethics in Computer Gaming and Cinema" that promises to be entertaining next quarter.
[/quote]I had a course kind of like that (discussion wise). It was called, "The Lure of the Villain in Literature". We read some ok books, but from my short studies I could have picked better villains. She picked a lot of "good guys who cross the line a bit", rather than real villains.

Our presentations were fun though. My group was me and two guys, who both were pretty good actors, so we decided to pick villains and talk about how pathetic our movie representations of us were. I was the Talented Mr Ripley, and somehow, a girl, dressed as a boy, yelling, "I don't like men, I'm not gay." got the entire class howling. I hope it was the irony, rather than me saying the word 'gay'.

 

[Cthulhu]

I should have taken a few courses in programming. Sounds like rather interesting. :<

Some courses are fine, but going hardcore into it requires a special kinda person, I guess .

 

[Madame Mayor]

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I should have taken a few courses in programming. Sounds like rather interesting. :<

Some courses are fine, but going hardcore into it requires a special kinda person, I guess .
[/quote]Which SO many people in my class aren't. It's sad. We have this Logic class which is literally 'if you have basic logic you will get near perfect'. It's a weeding out class, and one where I wish the teacher would just come out and say, "If this is giving you trouble, programming will never be your thing no matter how hard you try."

Mind you, these are the same people who are having trouble with Java, and that's even more obvious."If you are having trouble with message boxes gtfo plzkthx and stop wasting the teacher's time in class with the kids who will succeed."


My Java teacher and I are friends, and we are terrible sometimes talking about the other students and which ones we think or know will fail

 

[Cthulhu]

If you do it in code (talking about them), you could theoretically talk right in front of 'em, .

But yeah, I've seen the weeding out, basically nobody I've known in the first year has managed to get past the second, and just two made it to the third after re-doing the second year and, I think, have to do some courses from the second over (again). I severely doubt they'll make it to the third year.

All in all, it's a matter of Getting It, and if you don't Get It, stfu & gtfo kthxbai.

 

[Madame Mayor]

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All in all, it's a matter of Getting It, and if you don't Get It, stfu & gtfo kthxbai.
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Exactly. It's not something you can work at. Some people has logicz, others don't. But try explaining that to the ones without logic.

 

[Cthulhu]

Ask 'em how they'd implement a database abstraction class set thingy, if they come up with 'class Database', tell 'em to gfto .

 

[Seph]

What's happening in this here chit chat thread, then?

 

[annacamille]

Will posting here increase my post count?

 

[OneWingedDemon]

lol, anna.
I hate that newbie title >

.....*feels technologically impaired in this thread*

 

[Madame Mayor]

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.....*feels technologically impaired in this thread*
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Just pretend like I am . School really hasn't taught me anything... (Got an A average btw after all that worrying).