College/University??

[MrGiggles]

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Not sure what RIT is haha, and so I assume game design is not your major then?

Rochester Institute of Technology, but yeah it is my major. :P By the way I had minimal coding experience (I could do hello, world! in Java and diddled in php for a weekend) when school started, and I pulled through just dandy. I met a friend who had coded for a year pre-college, but we passed his area of knowledge in about 4 weeks. Prior experience is no issue. Day 1 starts with the assumption you have no programming knowledge.

a lot of programming concepts translate fairly easily. there will always be a lot to learn. that's the fun part

I'm pretty jealous, seņor giggles. sounds like a blast.

Dude I ****ing love it and I have no regrets at all. So far.

Game design is a pretty broad term. You can actually design layouts/ideas/integrations/interfaces/art/etc without doing any actual coding.

p much this, I've always though of game design as two subgroups, art and coding. Not that there aren't people who do both or neither.

Courses here vary from Game Software Development, the core coding portion of the degree, all the way to the other end of the spectrum, 2D animation and 3D animation where you don't have to write a line of code if you so prefer.

[U.N. Owen]

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Freshman computer science major at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

./nick Stereotypical_Forum_User

[Relambrien]

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Sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University, over here with Wineandbread (hi from the OGS SC2 thread!) and leonid. Computer Science major here.

Also leonid, holy **** 251 was hard, but 212 is somehow harder ;_;

That said, anyone here looking into CS or programming should take a course in functional programming. It's amazing the kind of thinking you learn how to do when you need to turn 50-line programs into 3 line functions.

fun addSum L = foldr (fn (a,b) => a + b) 0 L

Sums all of the elements of a list of integers in just one command. So much shorter than

int sum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) sum += arr[i];
return sum;

[JD_Flava]

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sophomore at sul ross state university, comp sci

[MrRubix]

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What is that, ML?

Just wait until you tear into Haskell. The one-liners you can pull... holy crap.

[leonid]

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It's SML. The hardest and the most annoying thing about that course (15212) is that you need to be able to mathematically prove whether a given SML code works as intended.

Also, rubix if you are interested in coding short one-liners, check out Golfscript:

# Summing a list of integers L
L{+}*

[MrRubix]

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Yowza.

I've unfortunately never been very good at codegolfing. I'm used to coding within a certain frame of medium length. If code is too short, it's ultimately harder to modify if it's something complex. On the other hand, code that's longwinded and wasteful is a pain to sift through.

[Vendetta21]

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I have 3.5 years of a business degree from CityU/UW and was variously a supervisor/analyst at Boeing until I realized I hated business and quit and also put college on hold. Now I am waiting for FAFSA next year to go back to school for something that I actually enjoy thinking about/doing and then getting a teaching certificate.

[Superfreak04]

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Rochester Institute of Technology, but yeah it is my major. :P By the way I had minimal coding experience (I could do hello, world! in Java and diddled in php for a weekend) when school started, and I pulled through just dandy. I met a friend who had coded for a year pre-college, but we passed his area of knowledge in about 4 weeks. Prior experience is no issue. Day 1 starts with the assumption you have no programming knowledge.

Dude I ****ing love it and I have no regrets at all. So far.
p much this, I've always though of game design as two subgroups, art and coding. Not that there aren't people who do both or neither.

Courses here vary from Game Software Development, the core coding portion of the degree, all the way to the other end of the spectrum, 2D animation and 3D animation where you don't have to write a line of code if you so prefer.

In that case I would probably want to learn about both. I'm skeptical on both ends because I feel like I'm not that good of an artist and wouldn't do so well even though I would be trained but I feel like I wouldn't be able to make anything like Darkshark can haha. And for the coding aspect, it seems very tricky and hard to learn, and not sure if I want to code a lot of stuff for the rest of my life lol. xD

[iironiic]

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Lol, so many math and computer science majors.

[remedy1502]

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Lol, so many math and computer science majors.

I think it's because generally people in the arts are off being artsy, and engineers are very busy with being engineers and such.

Or it's because we are part of (an) online community(ies) which probably means that we like computers. I dunno.

[RobertsonaIsBack]

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computer science sucks 8)

[karatesab]

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I think it's because generally people in the arts are off being artsy, and engineers are very busy with being engineers and such.

Or it's because we are part of (an) online community(ies) which probably means that we like computers. I dunno.

Engineers are studying now to have a life later. Artsy people are having a life now to be stuck in a rut later in life. This is definitely a more engineering and computer science interest based site (in my opinion). Artsy people will have a better time on an art or roleplaying forum rather than FFR I guess.

[A Beautiful Mind]

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computer science sucks 8)

CompSci isn't that bad, actually. My dad majored in that back when he was in college, and recommended that I get into it, too. Unfortunately, I don't think that I could ever go through with majoring in it. It just doesn't interest me enough.

Engineers are studying now to have a life later. Artsy people are having a life now to be stuck in a rut later in life. This is definitely a more engineering and computer science interest based site (in my opinion). Artsy people will have a better time on an art or roleplaying forum rather than FFR I guess.

That's a pretty accurate way of describing it. No offense to any art majors here but, nothing irritates me more than having to hear my friend who's majoring in art history complain about a midterm she has coming up. When I could probably spend a total of thirty minutes studying for it and ace it. As opposed to the endless amounts of hours I spend studying for my courses just praying for B or better.

[fido123]

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I suggest you don't go into Comp Sci unless you have an interest. I'm currently in a course where most people don't really have a nack for it and idk what the hell they're going to do, nor do they really try as they're just not interested. Also when you're a computer scientist you're a mathematician first and a computer guy second so that's why I never went down that road.

Also with regards to the artsi/non-artsi stuff, I agree that a lot of artsi stuff is utter bull**** and just useless to take assuming you're planning on getting a job involving whatever you took. However my best friend took history (Now he's moving to my course) and it's not something you can study for for half hour then ace like high-school lol. Artsi programs still take intelligence and smarts. I think most people are in bs courses cause their parents push them to go to University and only University so they can brag about their kids weather they know what they want to do or not. This is why there are so many useless people in Uni IMO and yet they look at College students like me like we're retarded.