Just found this site, from a link given within a forum inside my Uni. I''m doing Computer Games Programming there and just want to say this looks like a great resource for what I might be needing in the next 4 years. Great work ! Rest assured I will be telling many others about this site. Teesside Uni Student doing Computer Games Programming

Teeside uni does a Game Prog course? Is it BSc? What''s the syllabus like? Let''s have a link to the course homepage...

I did a Comp Sci degree at Nottingham, I''d be interested to see how much overlap there is between a niche course like yours and a generic one like mine...



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http://www.tees.ac.uk/prospstud/courses_ft2002_course.cfm?course=45&fos=4

Thats the link for the course. Its a degree course, 4 years "sandwitch" course. 3 Years complusary and 1 year optional placement somewhere.

Good course, so far we are learning HTML and basics of C Programming. Oh and Principles of Computers, like how binary is and how to convert to denary and logic gates etc at the moment

Oh and Computering Maths which is Polar Co-ords and the other type, can''t spell it

Oh and Communications which is how to present things and how to talk in a professional manner etc :S

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Original post by DaLion
Oh and Communications which is how to present things and how to talk in a professional manner etc :S

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That''s cool, too many Comp Sci. degrees don''t teach this very important skill.

If I had my way, I''d have all of you shot!

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Yeah its a nice skill to learn, will come in useful when I''m looking for a job, or even in the middle of a job etc.

Will be a skill to use my whole life, but the Communications section isnt just limited to that course. Its all the degree courses in the Computing Section so 500+ students and God Knows which other sections do it.

Yet another good point by Teesside Uni

Teesside Uni Student doing Computer Games Programming

(Apologies, slightly OT for this forum)

Thanks, the course looks interesting.

Personally, I always resented the "Business and Professional Development" modules they tacked alongside the coding.

I mean fair enough, it makes the degree more well-rounded, but I wished they could just give us a degree in PROGRAMMING. But then I''ve never had any trouble in this area, and I guess it benefitted a lot of the more socially challenged comp sci students.

I did feel though that if these modules hadn''t carried as much weight as the coding then fewer of the people who didn''t deserve to graduate (which was QUITE A LOT) would have been able to.

Sorry, bit of a tangent.

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Personally, I always resented the "Business and Professional Development" modules they tacked alongside the coding.

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Giving presentations and writing reports and so on is quite a big part of every day life once you get into the "real" world. You end up spending only half your time actually coding. That''s probably not a good thing, but that''s the way it is.

I guess it depends how these classes work. If they''re just sort of half-hearted "We have them because it sounds cool" kind of things, then it''s not much good. But if they''re well thought out and actually teach you stuff, then I think they''re a great idea!

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Dean - Certainly agree with what you''re saying about presenting, reporting etc is a large part of working life (it certainly is for mine), I think my resentment just stemmed from the fact that it felt like these modules were tacked on because they couldn''t think of anything else to teach.

The uni, although it had some really great lecturers, had many disillusioned, unmotivated staff with no faith in the system or much time for their students. And given some of the people who made it through, I can see where they were coming from.

I guess I just wanted to code

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hmm..

ok, this may be a touch of topic, but still..

university computer science staff are caught in a situation you can''t really envy, in the respect that 5 to 10 years ago, a person would take computer science if they really had a love of computers, and really had that love of getting maths to do oh so complex things (which is really what it is)... now days, cosc is somthing of a fad subject. People only really see the money in it.. I''d expect probably only 5% of people who take it fall into that catagory I mentioned above... At my current university, a good 1000-1500 (I think) people will take first year computer science... Around 250 will be left by the end of the year. And yet those are still mostly people who lack that basic drive to program... only ever touching Bluej, xemacs or whatnot, when an assignment comes round.. they don''t sit though other lectures trying to focus on the lecturere because their head is full of code..

That said, I''m lucky.. the whole department here is filled with ultra enthusiastic people who absolutly love what they do, and you can tell by the way they talk about it...

Overall though, I don''t feel a games specific course is really a good idea... A game programmer needs to be very competent in all areas of programming, games will simply be an extension. And due to the very rapidly changing pace of the industry, a 4 year course will almost certainly be out of date by the time it''s finished. Even one year can see a significant shift in the way things are done (eg, the change from D3D7 to D3D8)... Fixed courses can''t cope with that, but an experienced programmer can.

I also feel that game programming is another, well, fad thing to do. I discovered game creation at a very early age, way over a decade ago (now thats a scary thought)... No course can beat experience like that..

Game programming is a state of mind, it''s not something that can be taught. (if you get what I mean)

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