working in national forests having to stay in those raised house/outposts staring at trees for months at a time completely secluded from the rest of the world.

what do you even do with the kinds of jobs you're going after?  i don't know anything about environmental science!

i wanna be the president of the USA

btw

it's intriguing how many ppl here defy game design courses. especially here on this forum, that pretends to focus on indie game design. seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you people? it's like saying you love cheese but you hate the people that make it. everyone's all like "hah omg game design no jobs no future" but i don't see any backup for your mindless arguments

bai

Ok, so I've taken one of those career tests on the internet and this is what it said:

The biggest thing I can tell you about doing computer science is that you will have to work with nitty-gritty stuff.  I see a lot of people talk about how they use game making programs because "learning a programming language is too hard".  This is what you will be doing in a CS program, you will be programming.  It will be hard sometimes, but not as terrible as you think, because you'll be starting with really simple stuff.  I guess the best advice for someone considering it is that you can't go in expecting magic to happen.  All the people who went into the CS program wanting those jobs at Blizzard kept complaining that "this is so boring, I want to make games not these dumb programs". 

You have to understand that if you can't make a program that reads in a text file, sorts the words by frequency, and saves that to another file, you aren't going to be making any games EVER.  So, if you want to do CS for whatever reason, just understand that it's a lot of work and you aren't going to get these magical results.  If you really want to do game design, you will have to be able to do these things.  If you can't do the work in the CS program, you won't be making games.  It's as simple as that.  Plus, most game making companies won't even consider you unless you have been in the field for many years.  Getting a straight-up CS job for a few years is a good way to get that experience.

But don't let that discourage you!  It can be pretty awesome when you get programs working the way you want, and your independent game design projects, even if you're using a game maker, will probably go a lot smoother when you understand the groundwork behind them.

But don't let that discourage you!  It can be pretty awesome when you get programs working the way you want, and your independent game design projects, even if you're using a game maker, will probably go a lot smoother when you understand the groundwork behind them.

When you finally get that eureka moment and your project works it is very rewarding.

When you finally get that eureka moment and your project works it is very rewarding. In 1st year I made a program to do nodal analysis in the frequency domain and it was such a relief when the right results popped up in the console. You do get some proper bastard programming projects to do but they can all be solved if you give yourself time and work on it. I still know a few people who are like "EWW programming I suck at programming" but it's kinda a social stigma that people believe it is hard. It's all practice and the more you practice the better you get at it.

Hmm, so what kind of programming language do you use and what kind of mathematics is involved?