[gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome Tanmay.
- From: Ross T <ross_is_the_best@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:03:07 +0000
Hey All,
It is very interesting to see other people's careers and how they actually got
into the industry.
My name's Ross Townsend, I'm 22 and I'm prob one of the few english guys on
this list. I joined a couple of years ago and i would like to thank Bob for the
great job he has done with this list :)
I graduated from my undergrad in Computer Games Technologies last year, but
because of the recession here no-one would touch graduates so i decided to
carry on my education and do a masters in Intelligent Systems and Robotics
(artificial intelligence).
I've been coding for about 4 years now, my first piece of code was written in
Turbo Pascal at secondary school where i did a simple bubble sort on a list of
numbers. I first started to code properly when i went to university and was
taught Java. This is when i realised i had potential for programming and really
fell in love with it. I quickly found out that if you want any hope of getting
into the games industry that you need to know c++ so i started to teach myself.
I admit that i'm still not 100% and i'm still making rooky mistakes but i'm
getting there :)
I'm in the process of doing my masters dissertation and finish it in september.
For those interested, i'm looking at using the GPU for doing logic calculations
for intelligent agents instead of using the CPU. I was originally going to do
path finding but since that's already been done i am now trying to implement
flocking behaviours on it :D
I'm also currently working on developing a demo for this guy which will
hopefully get me a job at the end of this year. If not i'll probably be
following in Kevin's footsteps and distributing hundreds of CV's lol
I look forward to more interesting topics that come from this list!
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