I have been so busy over the last month or so I haven’t had time to write these blog entries. However I have been progressing quickly with my course. I have passed the first 7 tutor marked assignments (TMA) and I have submitted my 8th one today.
The quality of the course as continued I have questions one of the sections about referencing arrays however the general theory in that section was correct it was merely down to grammar (Of which mine is terrible).
I have gone through the basics of game design and the basics of programming and data structures and on thursday I have my first seminar!
To be honest I have actually learnt a lot about programming that I didn’t know already, there are a lot of things when programming a computer game you do slightly different from you would with an application, in fact if anything there is much less room for error.
The last section I passed was on classes and structures and the TMA I submitted was on memory allocation and memory management (The Mozilla guys really need to read the section on memory leaks lol)
As for what I have been doing, I have been creating a series of 2D classes for use with direct3D using XYZRHW (pre transformed vertices).. well more on that soon.
I hope to update this again shortly!
Ur naive to think a micky mouse course will get ur career in prgramming. It’s a long walk and the guys who get employed are the ones with experience& degrees. Train 2 game isn’t a scam. Nor would u have a hope in he’ll of making a shortlist after completing the corse. Enough top bsc grads r unemployed to justify this answer. I trained for 7 years to get my start and paid 20k uni fees.
There is no naivety in my thinking, I have programming experience in many other areas, also the course isn’t Mickey Mouse it has been fully vetted. The reality is the BSCs of current times aren’t worth the paper they are printed on, I have one it is the biggest waste of time I have ever done, I learnt nothing. On the train2game course in the first 3 months alone I learnt more about programming for this environment than I did before.
If anything is a waste it is the current University system, it either needs bringing up to date or more on the job training happening because the way things stand it is just pathetic.