Noob learns to code in 3 months

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 16th, 2017, 11:25 am

Can't believe it's been like 2 months since I started already and 1.5 months since I started the spaceballs project. 2 more months left until the last day to apply for the game programming school.

Just applied for 15 other university programs as back up in case I do not get accepted to that school.
(not sure if I'm translating all of these correctly)

1. Computer science, 3 years on campus.
This one I'd be happy with as second choice. would have to travel 130km to get to school which would be a bit annoying but doable

2.
IT security and softwaretesting, 3 years on campus.
Not as excited about this one as I think it has a bit less to do with what I'd like to do for a job afterwards (programming) but it lists programmer as one of the possible jobs after graduation and some of the courses looks interesting. Also the school is nearby

3
Applied system science, 3 years on campus.
Campus is nearby which is good

4
Computer game development, 3 years on campus.
This one would probably be fun but would have to travel something like 250km to get to school :p

5
Computer science, 3 years on campus
Same deal here, campus is 250km away

6
Software engineering, 3 years distance based.
This one looks pretty interesting, it's distance based though so doing the whole thing online from home will probably a challenge.

7
Applied system science, 3 years distance based

8
applied system science, 3 years on campus 165km away

9
applied system science, 3 years on campus 170km away

10
developing and managing software systems, 3 years distance based

11
Web programmer, 2 years distance based.
Bit less interested in html, javascript etc but would be better than nothing.

12
developing e-services
actually not excited at all about this one so might delete it

13
Web programming, 2 years distance based

14
mathematician, 3 years on campus 165km away
threw this one in there as a curve ball :P

15
data and applied system science, 3 years on campus 250km away



Would've liked to apply for more computer science but I don't really have the grades needed for most of them.
If I take another 5 week math course I'd be eligible to apply for one more of them. For the other ones I'd also need a couple physics courses and a chemistry course.
Not sure if I'll have the energy for another math course just to slightly increase the chances of me getting accepted to a program that would be my second choice

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by chili » March 16th, 2017, 11:48 am

Wow time flies man! Looks like you got a lot of plan B's. Computer science and computer engineering are good majors.

How is T23 going? Easy breezy? I'm finishing up the editing on the SFML setup mini-tutorial, that should be popping in a day or so, so get caught up on those beginner tutorials!
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 16th, 2017, 12:46 pm

Yeah since there are just something like 9 programmer per year getting accepted to the school I can't put all my eggs in that basket :)

Took the day completely off yesterday and did some other stuff. Gonna rewatch the tutorials today and hopefully get started with coding :)

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by chili » March 16th, 2017, 1:10 pm

Gotta take some days off :)

Holy shit, that is pretty low numbers. I wonder what the # of applicants is each year.
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 16th, 2017, 1:18 pm

chili wrote:Gotta take some days off :)

Holy shit, that is pretty low numbers. I wonder what the # of applicants is each year.
I think it's pretty high. The school is just one class which they seem to put a lot of resources into. Sounds so awesome.
The students get a personal workstation with an awesome computer, there's a motion capture studio, there's a gaming room if you wanna take a break which has all consoles from retro to modern etc :D

The classes seem to consist out of
8-10 programming students
20-24 artists
8-10 designers

on average

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 20th, 2017, 3:53 pm

Been inactive last couple days. Been having computer issues and had to reinstall windows and reinstall visual studio, backk up shits make database back ups for poker software etc.

Think I'll be ready to continue studying tonight or tomorrow

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by chili » March 21st, 2017, 9:17 am

Yeah, reinstalls are a bitch. Just did me one of those a little while back and I'm still running into software that needs installing.
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 21st, 2017, 9:35 am

chili wrote:Yeah, reinstalls are a bitch. Just did me one of those a little while back and I'm still running into software that needs installing.
Yeah it sucks and had to do it twice because first time I didn't to a clean install :D
Done now tho! Wil watch tutorials today

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 22nd, 2017, 12:14 am

arrgh just watched the sfml vid but I have visual 2017 now

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by chili » March 22nd, 2017, 1:06 am

Haha, well I'm going to be putting out a video fairly soon that goes over an easy / powerful installation workflow for VS2017.
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