UK Games Industry Over the Hill?

Tinkle writes "A games industry campaign group has warned the UK is falling behind on coding skills because university courses are not up to scratch. But this article includes an interview with an industry coding veteran who believes a lack of creative home computing hardware (think: Atari ST) is more likely to be at the root of the skills shortage, and explains why Britain's games coders are getting a bit long-in-the-tooth."

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Re:A mindset that perpetuates failure

[GrahamCox]

As for Windows or OS X

Every copy of OS X comes with a complete set of developer tools - GCC, Xcode (integrated IDE), Interface Builder, GDB and plenty of other stuff. *If* you're interested in learning to program and you have a Mac, it's all right there in the box.