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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."
I thought the British gaming industry uses chimps and Visual Basic.
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I've only worked with one British programmer to any great extent. But the man would show up reeking of alcohol, and would code some of the nastiest spaghetti the world has ever seen. Everything he would write would be one massive hack.
I had a lead who's been in the industry for over 20 years. He says that that's not at all uncommon for British programmers. He said that in general, they started with the demo scene and coded something cool, but they completely fall apart when they have to actually code something big.
I haven't read TFA, but the summary would seem to indicate that he's right.
Also, just a note. I know that not all British programmers are like this, but I think it deserves a mention that my former lead had given me a totally accurate profile of the man from my vague descriptions before he even met him.
Also of note, I'm Canadian, and I would love to paint the British in a better light, but that experience was just horrible.
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.
... and Scotland is a part of Britain.
Better the devil you know. The SNP will only sell you out to Brussels if they get independence you know.
And how many thousands of pounds' worth of my tax money have you spent chopping and changing your worthless qualifications, you money-grabbing leeching student prick? DIAF.