Re: Hey all, please help me on this one!!!

["Joseph Hardin" <lazer@zianet.com>]

I'm looking into this, as my plans for college right now are costing me
around 500k
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Humphrey <benjina@mindspring.com>
To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: Hey all, please help me on this one!!!


>If you are serious about being in game programming,
>
>Goto www.Digipen.edu
>
>Digipen, Institute of technology.  They offer a 2 and four year degree
>program.  They
>can give out an AA and Bacholors degree.  I went there for a year, and I am
>already in the industry.
>In my opinion, there is no better place in the world.  I heard though a
>place in
>florida has opened up though..
>
>THe school is right next to microsoft in Redmond washington.
>6000 US a semester though...  But you learn more than you will anywhere
>else,
>as well as, they hook you up with jobs, interships.. etc...
>
>If you have any more quesitons, feel free to ask.
>
>Ben Humphrey
>Game Programmer
>WebHost of www.GameTutorials.com
>benh@humongous.com
>benjina@mindspring.com
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dustin McCulloch <dustin_mcculloch@yahoo.com>
>To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 8:24 PM
>Subject: Hey all, please help me on this one!!!
>
>
>> As i reach that age in my life, i realize the next 2
>> months of my life are going to be responsible for my
>> future for possibly at least the next 10 years.
>>
>> The reason for this is because i am in my last
>> highschool year!  Now i come to all of you veterans,
>> or people who have been through various colleges, and
>> university's and i just need to know, what ones are
>> good, what classes are good, what i need to get in,
>> what the costs are like, and what classes are good to
>> have!!!
>>
>> For example, my math marks suck, but still, i am
>> taking algebra, calculus, english 1, biology, family
>> studies, all oac, as well as gr 12 comp science (top
>> of our schools level, and was only offered once every
>> 2 years), so with this i will have 6 oac's which will
>> include health which i got last year!  My self
>> projected average is going to be approx. 72-82
>> percent!
>>
>> I also wanted a robotics course working with lego
>> mindstorms, as a way to work on ai, but i couldnt get
>> it.  Nonetheless, I believe these classes are all ill
>> need for 95 % of computer science courses!
>>
>> But for those recently through the system, what do i
>> need to look into, im really into ai, and game design,
>> to be quite honest i suck so far at base programming,
>> the best work I will have done in 3 years will probly
>> be a card game in vb.  So anything like that is probly
>> out, as well, im not into administrator stuff, or
>> sisqo, or doing networks, i want to program games, and
>> i need to know where to go to get the training for it,
>> so my basic plea is, if you have any info for me,
>> pleas e volunteer it to me privately, or you could
>> send it to the list for all to view, and if you know
>> about "Nintendo college" or any specifics, that will
>> be great...
>>
>> Thanks alot for any help you can offer, nothing is
>> useless info at this stage in my life!!!
>>
>> Dustin
>>
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