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Ubisoft and Quebec to Create GameDev Courses
Ubisoft and the Canadian government are coordinating to create a game development university on the scenic Ubisoft campus, reports Gamespot. Marking continued cooperation between Ubisoft and the Quebecois government, the new 'university' would be in direct competition with EA's similar program set in California. From the article: "Ubisoft Campus students will receive degrees accredited by Québec's Ministry of Education. For undergraduates, each study program will be 45 weeks long, divided into three 15-week terms. The school will also offer master's programs in computer science and software engineering, with added courses in digital imaging and electronics."
If this is aimed at kids in high school that have little or know technical knowledge, how far is this really going to get them? I mean 45 weeks is not exactly a lot of time to learn coding for performance and reliability. I don't think grads with this "degree" are going to be snatched up the day they graduate by big game producers.
...for those Students that the boom in video games will continue. right now, big titles make more money then most big hollywood flicks (compare a well-sold ego-shooter to a movie like "pirates of the carribean"), but there once was a time where there was a huge downturn in that industry in the early 80's,
i dont know, but i know one thing: you can learn french, it wont kill you. We frenchies all learned english out of necessity, you live in a bilingual country, why not oblige?
I remember, back in the early 90's (1993?), Middlesex University (England) done a BSc in Games programming... About 1/2 way through the course, Nintendo and Sega (IIRC) representatives came in, and offered EVERYONE on the course jobs, which they all accepted... The course died, Middlesex Uni didn't bother starting it up again...
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I always doubted my math and physics professors in school. But they could come up with arguments to back up their claims. And when they showed me the facts, I accepted their teaching as superior. How can I accept a game design professor's ideas when I disagree fundamentally on what I think is fun?
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I'm referring to this line: "scenic Ubisoft campus".
I've been to Ubisoft's offices in Montreal to apply for a job. They don't have a campus. They only have one floor in a run-down multi-floor building in Old Montreal (Semi-downtown). There IS no campus...
It should be noted that the URL is http://www.ubisoftcampus.com/
(it's not in the article)
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Because learning languages is good for you, French especially, in light of the high proportion of galicisms in English. There must be a reason why private _French-immersion_ schools are popping up all over the country, especially in regions with next to no native francophones. We, Canadians, are lucky enough that native speakers of both languages usually aren't too far, yet people on both sides of the issue find reasons to complain about having to learn more than one language. Your own post gives a good reason: it'll help you save/make money (Imagine that, 70% [yeah, right] of a budget that ultimately only goes to bilingual French-English workers).
Americans are often described as closed-minded imperialists. Please don't make it true of yourself; study languages, cultures, history, etc... Not because you need to, but because it'll help you get more out of life and become a better person.
- Second generation immigrant, grew up in a suburb of Québec City, now at U de Montréal, where he frequently finds himself advocating bilingualism to strict francophones.
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I understand what you are saying...and I somewhat agree....
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Je comprends ce que tu dis et ca fait beaucoup de sens.
Comment pourrais-tu comprendre le besoin d'être bilingue si ce n'est pas ta langue qui disparaît.
Toi tu me dis pourquoi apprendre le francais. Et moi je te réponds, pourquoi pas ? Quel mal y a t'il dans l'apprentissage du francais ?
C'est précisément à cause de gens comme toi que personne n'essaie d'apprendre l'anglais au québec ou d'apprendre le francais dans l'ouest canadien. Je ne fais que penser à toute les opportunités d'affaire qui s'ouvrirait si nous voulions bien passer par dessus la question de la langue. Le fait que tout le monde doivent connaitre le l'anglais est un obstacle.
Je suis parfaitement bilingue et je travaille dans les deux languages à chaque jour. Pas parce que j'en suis forcé, parce que ca m'aide à communiquer avec mon entourage, avec le monde sur internet et dans la rue.
I'm sorry to learn that 70% of your budget goes to translating your website, that really scares me about its functionalities. I'm a public servant, working for government of canada. bilingual website are also a mandatory item and i can assure you that with good design, making a a website bilingual doesn't even reach 10% and trust me, we've made some pretty text intensive systems out there... I actually worked a lot on these systems.
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My point with all this isn't it isn't a whole of trouble to learn french....or to learn english, wanting is all what's required.
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The current government just chopped 103 M$ in the student
loan program an now they take that money from public education
and give it to the private sector. Free access to public
education is in danger here. I fear that the next generation
will leave many brilliant people to sell burgers because they
couldn't afford to go to the state sponsored private
universities.
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