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Then we come to math, I can't say much about this, I have never needed to use any advanced maths until I wanted to start doing graphics programming. Even then at this point, usually there are libraries that take care of 90% of this, and you really only need to understand whats basically going on. I would say math is useful though.
Of course crap like calculus will be useless, but you're trivializing mathematics quite a bit.
Calculus can be quite useful you know, especially when doing simulations.
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Then we come to math, I can't say much about this, I have never needed to use any advanced maths until I wanted to start doing graphics programming. Even then at this point, usually there are libraries that take care of 90% of this, and you really only need to understand whats basically going on. I would say math is useful though.
Of course crap like calculus will be useless, but you're trivializing mathematics quite a bit.
Calculus can be quite useful you know, especially when doing simulations.
THIS! If you want to be a programmer of any kind -- I don't care if you go to University for CS or a tradeschool for 'game programming' -- do yourself a favour and do some math courses :)
~Shiny,
BSC CS (hons) & BA -- why? Because it is really useful knowing about something other than computers :)
------------'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.' -Bjarne Stroustrup
In my area, unless you're highest aspirations are to swing chainsaw in the woods or turn a wrench in a paper mill, you need a college degree. Your only other viable option is to enlist.
Hence why I'm going to be going to college for at least the next three years. At the moment, I'm not even eligible for the draft, if it was reinstated, thanks to my freak bout with Hodgkins, until I turn 22. Not that I'm complaining about having the opportunity to attend Dartmouth College ( at least not too much ),
Go to college if you can. It's a helluva ride, and you'll learn as much living in a dorm, raising hell and doing the last minute pushes to get papers finished up as you will just going to class.
Quote:Original post by Palidine In modern days you will basically not get through the door without a college degree unless your portfolio is truly astounding. (By astounding I mean you are able to do things that no one can do in realtime; or you have developed an entirely new technique for <insert game system here>).
I'm wondering, since getting a degree currently isn't an option for me, if you could explain a bit more as to what constitutes a "truly astounding" portfolio? Could you point me to any examples?
Quote:Original post by Megaman_22 Go to college if you can. It's a helluva ride, and you'll learn as much living in a dorm, raising hell and doing the last minute pushes to get papers finished up as you will just going to class.
"Halma" wrote: >I'm wondering... if you could explain a bit more as to what constitutes a "truly astounding" portfolio?
1. I cannot tell you what to do to knock my socks off. But I can inform you when you have knocked them off.
2. The fact that you have to ask this indicates that you are probably a long way from making such a portfolio. When your work is "truly astounding," you won't need to have people tell you that it's astounding - you'll already know it.
So. Since an art degree is unattainable for you, what's your plan for learning all the stuff you'd learn in the school you won't be going to?
