I'm a junior, and my major is Gaming and Simulation design. I was in engineering my freshman year, so I have a feel for hardware too.
My idea for my senior project is to make a virtual solarsystem. I would have to write the graphics engine, from the ground up, or borrow some from other engines. But I want to make a front end that you choose how many planets, what mass, what color, what size, what topography, maybe what main elements (toss some science in there too. Then you run the simulation, you can watch it in realtime or adjust the speed the simulation runs at.
Watch the planets rotate around the sun, so on and so forth.
I am in college for a game design major. There are 2 sets of courses. One leaning more towards art, and one more towards programming. I switched to this major, and am having to take alot of freshman classes this year (I'm a sophmore), so I can speak from kind of a "already knowing how to program" kind of stand point.
I would have to say that Python would be a rather easy language, but with all of the neccesarry parts, to teach the child. Its very easy to get a game programmed. It only took me about 20 minutes on my first try to make a simple program that opened a window, created a border, and let me move a sprite around the screen with the keys on the keyboard.
My uncle was a triangle, the only greek frat at University of Cincinnati without a greek name. They were an all engineering fraternity, but he dropped out of it because he couldn't get enough time in to study.
I'm currently enrolled at Shawnee State, and my degree title is something along the lines of "Game Design and Engineering Technology"
Its a degree specifically designed to make me look better to game companies. Truthfully, I don't want to work at one, but its some damn interesting classes, and hopefully I'll find a job in a industry similar to game design.
My courses consist of alot of CS classes, with a spattling of art, such as 3d animation, drawing classes, things like that. I have to take alot of physics classes (I would assume for writing physics engines and what not).
I am enjoying it very much, I actually switched to this major from Computer Engineering because I really disliked Electronics and similar classes, it just wasn't what I wanted to do with my life.
Hopefully I will be able to get a job doing what I want, preferably a tech job at a small company as a sysadmin, and with my art classes, I shouldn't be a half bad web designer and what not as well, as well as being able to write the occasional needed custom application.
I have a Fedora Core 2 box (800mhz w/ 512 megs of ram) acting as a Samba server, with 2 200gig drives in it.
In the living room connected to a 5.1 surround sounc system and 32" TV, I have a 1.4ghz Tbird w/ 256 megs of ram running winXP. It runs a program named "Media Portal" that I found on Source Forge that looks almost exactly like Windows Media Centre, except its free, and is a bit more customizable. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse to control it, and If I have to do anything major, I use VNC from one of my desktops.
It works rather nicely, I have almost 200 movies ripped, along with thousands of hours of music. I can play DVDs, watch Xvid rips, listen to music, chech the news, weather, things like that, go through my photo albums, and play MAME games, all from the comfort of my couch.
Oh, and did I mention this is in my dorm apartment at school? It tends to make you the rather popular person when you have one of the nicest clearest and loudest sound systems on campus, and enough entertainment to watch 2 movies a night for a quarter and never see the same thing twice.
Copied and pasted from some program I made for my C101 class last year, I'd take the job and show you my resume, but I'm just a sophmore in Univesity, sorry.
I've been using synergy for several months and love it, one thing I've noticed is occasionaly it freezes up when I'm typing for several seconds, AND it messes with my network if I'm trying to stream video acrost it.
My friend mike just built a shuttle machine, I don't get why.
He doesn't use it for games, because he doesn't play games. It cost 50% more than a comperable standard computer, it has less upgradability, and theres no room to add alot of add in cards.
PLUS! He already had a good laptop. He did it because he "wanted a desktop, but one like his laptop". What the hell does that mean?
I use a program called DevC++ for most of my homework for classes, because its the same thing we have in our labs, and it makes it much easier.
Plus, I can't put a linux machine on the campus network, they register everything by MAC, and make me take it down to the tech's to get it checked out. They are afraid of "linux spreading virii on their network." Umm...Yeah.....
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Funny, I've played FPS games side by side in linux and windows, and I'd say the windows box was a slight bit faster. I was playing Quake 3 and Soldier of Fortune.
Not that I'm trashing linux, I use it daily. I have 2 boxes, with Synergy setup between them. One is linux, the other windows. I use the linux box for websurfing, AIM, and as a file server, and the windows box (since it has a bigger monitor) for doing any programming homework and playing games. I just find that linux isn't quite there yet for gaming. Hopefully soon though, its came a long way.
I believe you can process whatever you want on either, but different processing units are geared towards different things.
I'm not really skilled in this area, but I belive the CPU is more like a jack of all trades, whereas a GPU is specialized to just do the math involved for Graphics
For a truely user friendly distro, X wouldn't crash out to command line, it would reliably load up the generic drivers for further visual configuration
I have 2 monitors on my desk, one is my windows machine, and gets rebooted occasionaly and is used for games. I try to keep aim running as steady as possible, so people can get a hold of me all the time.
Also, so I can use aim while I'm playing full screen games.
I take 4 computers to school with me every year. I have a HP laptop, athlon 2400+ desktop, a Samba server, and a junker that I play around on sometimes.
I leave all 4 in my room, with no problems. But then again, I have more of an on campus apartment. It has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room. its a pretty nice setup. I leave my stuff unlocked, and I've never been worried about it before. Just be on good terms with your roommates.
I did have a few crappy roommates early on. They claimed they had never went into my room, even though I came back on a sunday afternoon, and there were beer cups all over my room and the bed was messed up (yes, it had mystery stains too!). Luckily, I expected something like that to happen sooner or later, and I had a webcam hooked up and hidden on a shelf, with motion detection software running. All it took was me emailing a picture of them in my room to one of them, with a nice little note attached saying I have more, and have them backed up at home so its no use destroying my computers, and if you do it again, I'm forwarding this to housing. They never did it again.
I just installed this in the last hour, after seeing it talked about here.
Let me just say that this revolutionize my life!! I have twice the desktop space now! Its awsome. Before I had a windows desktop machine, and a linux machine running gnome that I only used for gaim (its also a file server). Every time I wanted to chat in aim, I had to lean forward, and use the other keyboard that is in front of my windows desktop keyboard. NO More!
This made the linux machine a completely usable computer now, I can have 2 monitors filled with webbrowsers, porn, whatever I want, and not have lurch forward in my chair to control the second one.
In a few years, (3, when I graduate), since there are fewer people going into CS and CE now, will there be a need for them then?
I'm assuming that in 3 years, plenty of the old guys will retire, and with less people to replace them, there will be a demand for Computer Science (or my major, Game Design & computer Engineering Technology). Several of my teachers have explained this theory to me, and said to stay in the major since there will a demand by the time I graduate.
I'm sorry, but having no money is a fucking dumb exscuse for not starting college.
I'm a sophmore at a uni in Ohio, and I have yet to pay a dime out of pocket. All I've done is signed some loan paperwork, and I'll pay it back when I graduate.
College is no longer only for those with money, and I'm sick of hearing that exscuse. It just means you were to lazy to do any research.
yeah, if you lick both terminals at the same time like you would a 9 volt battery;-)
But, um, no, you can touch both terminals at the same time with no ill effects, I've done it many many times. Now, if you run a 12 volt car battery through a transformer, such as to power your spark plugs, then yes, it can kill you.
As an employee of a small metal works company, I'd love to see you try to drop kick one of our 100lb 1/4" plate steel sheets triple wrapped in cardboard. But somehow, we stll have them go missing and get bent on the way there.
And couldn't be happier with it, besides just a few small things. I had a toshiba before this, and it was just as problematic.
The only thing I don't like about the HP (a ze4315) is that the case creaks when I open and close the screen, but thats just because its very tight, which I'd rather have than an easy to move screen.
The first thing I did when I got it was max out the ram by taking out the old stuff, and install a brand new copy of WinXP pro (I get it free through my college), and I have never had a problem with it since.
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Stock exchange gives YOU virus!
Whats a fark cliche doing on slashdot?!
ONO, THE END OF THE WORLD!
.Zip or .Rar supports passworded files, correct?
Just have all of the files up on the site, and when a customer purchases one file, give them the password for it.
I'm a junior, and my major is Gaming and Simulation design. I was in engineering my freshman year, so I have a feel for hardware too.
My idea for my senior project is to make a virtual solarsystem. I would have to write the graphics engine, from the ground up, or borrow some from other engines. But I want to make a front end that you choose how many planets, what mass, what color, what size, what topography, maybe what main elements (toss some science in there too. Then you run the simulation, you can watch it in realtime or adjust the speed the simulation runs at.
Watch the planets rotate around the sun, so on and so forth.
I am in college for a game design major. There are 2 sets of courses. One leaning more towards art, and one more towards programming. I switched to this major, and am having to take alot of freshman classes this year (I'm a sophmore), so I can speak from kind of a "already knowing how to program" kind of stand point.
I would have to say that Python would be a rather easy language, but with all of the neccesarry parts, to teach the child. Its very easy to get a game programmed. It only took me about 20 minutes on my first try to make a simple program that opened a window, created a border, and let me move a sprite around the screen with the keys on the keyboard.
My uncle was a triangle, the only greek frat at University of Cincinnati without a greek name. They were an all engineering fraternity, but he dropped out of it because he couldn't get enough time in to study.
I'm currently enrolled at Shawnee State, and my degree title is something along the lines of "Game Design and Engineering Technology"
Its a degree specifically designed to make me look better to game companies. Truthfully, I don't want to work at one, but its some damn interesting classes, and hopefully I'll find a job in a industry similar to game design.
My courses consist of alot of CS classes, with a spattling of art, such as 3d animation, drawing classes, things like that. I have to take alot of physics classes (I would assume for writing physics engines and what not).
I am enjoying it very much, I actually switched to this major from Computer Engineering because I really disliked Electronics and similar classes, it just wasn't what I wanted to do with my life.
Hopefully I will be able to get a job doing what I want, preferably a tech job at a small company as a sysadmin, and with my art classes, I shouldn't be a half bad web designer and what not as well, as well as being able to write the occasional needed custom application.
I have a Fedora Core 2 box (800mhz w/ 512 megs of ram) acting as a Samba server, with 2 200gig drives in it.
In the living room connected to a 5.1 surround sounc system and 32" TV, I have a 1.4ghz Tbird w/ 256 megs of ram running winXP. It runs a program named "Media Portal" that I found on Source Forge that looks almost exactly like Windows Media Centre, except its free, and is a bit more customizable. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse to control it, and If I have to do anything major, I use VNC from one of my desktops.
It works rather nicely, I have almost 200 movies ripped, along with thousands of hours of music. I can play DVDs, watch Xvid rips, listen to music, chech the news, weather, things like that, go through my photo albums, and play MAME games, all from the comfort of my couch.
Oh, and did I mention this is in my dorm apartment at school? It tends to make you the rather popular person when you have one of the nicest clearest and loudest sound systems on campus, and enough entertainment to watch 2 movies a night for a quarter and never see the same thing twice.
void insertnode(Node *first, int x, int y)
{
int z = 0;
Node *start = first;
while(z next;
z++;
}
Node *addnode = (Node *)malloc(sizeof(Node));
addnode->next = first->next;
addnode->x = x;
first->next = addnode;
while(start->next != 0)
{
printf("X = %d\n", start->x);
start = start->next;
}
}
Copied and pasted from some program I made for my C101 class last year, I'd take the job and show you my resume, but I'm just a sophmore in Univesity, sorry.
I've been using synergy for several months and love it, one thing I've noticed is occasionaly it freezes up when I'm typing for several seconds, AND it messes with my network if I'm trying to stream video acrost it.
My friend mike just built a shuttle machine, I don't get why.
He doesn't use it for games, because he doesn't play games. It cost 50% more than a comperable standard computer, it has less upgradability, and theres no room to add alot of add in cards.
PLUS! He already had a good laptop. He did it because he "wanted a desktop, but one like his laptop". What the hell does that mean?
I use a program called DevC++ for most of my homework for classes, because its the same thing we have in our labs, and it makes it much easier.
Plus, I can't put a linux machine on the campus network, they register everything by MAC, and make me take it down to the tech's to get it checked out. They are afraid of "linux spreading virii on their network." Umm...Yeah.....
Funny, I've played FPS games side by side in linux and windows, and I'd say the windows box was a slight bit faster. I was playing Quake 3 and Soldier of Fortune.
Not that I'm trashing linux, I use it daily. I have 2 boxes, with Synergy setup between them. One is linux, the other windows. I use the linux box for websurfing, AIM, and as a file server, and the windows box (since it has a bigger monitor) for doing any programming homework and playing games. I just find that linux isn't quite there yet for gaming. Hopefully soon though, its came a long way.
I had to read those books for 8th grade english.
no offense, but they all suck balls, big hairy balls.
I believe you can process whatever you want on either, but different processing units are geared towards different things.
I'm not really skilled in this area, but I belive the CPU is more like a jack of all trades, whereas a GPU is specialized to just do the math involved for Graphics
I agree with this 100%
And people like you are one of the reasons why linux will never be mainstream
"oh, don't make it GUI configurable, thats stupid"
Moron
I have 2 monitors on my desk, one is my windows machine, and gets rebooted occasionaly and is used for games. I try to keep aim running as steady as possible, so people can get a hold of me all the time.
Also, so I can use aim while I'm playing full screen games.
I take 4 computers to school with me every year.
I have a HP laptop, athlon 2400+ desktop, a Samba server, and a junker that I play around on sometimes.
I leave all 4 in my room, with no problems. But then again, I have more of an on campus apartment. It has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room. its a pretty nice setup. I leave my stuff unlocked, and I've never been worried about it before. Just be on good terms with your roommates.
I did have a few crappy roommates early on. They claimed they had never went into my room, even though I came back on a sunday afternoon, and there were beer cups all over my room and the bed was messed up (yes, it had mystery stains too!).
Luckily, I expected something like that to happen sooner or later, and I had a webcam hooked up and hidden on a shelf, with motion detection software running. All it took was me emailing a picture of them in my room to one of them, with a nice little note attached saying I have more, and have them backed up at home so its no use destroying my computers, and if you do it again, I'm forwarding this to housing. They never did it again.
I just installed this in the last hour, after seeing it talked about here.
Let me just say that this revolutionize my life!!
I have twice the desktop space now! Its awsome. Before I had a windows desktop machine, and a linux machine running gnome that I only used for gaim (its also a file server). Every time I wanted to chat in aim, I had to lean forward, and use the other keyboard that is in front of my windows desktop keyboard. NO More!
This made the linux machine a completely usable computer now, I can have 2 monitors filled with webbrowsers, porn, whatever I want, and not have lurch forward in my chair to control the second one.
Slashdot, you are my god!
In a few years, (3, when I graduate), since there are fewer people going into CS and CE now, will there be a need for them then?
I'm assuming that in 3 years, plenty of the old guys will retire, and with less people to replace them, there will be a demand for Computer Science (or my major, Game Design & computer Engineering Technology). Several of my teachers have explained this theory to me, and said to stay in the major since there will a demand by the time I graduate.
Does anyone else agree with this, or is it bunk?
I'm sorry, but having no money is a fucking dumb exscuse for not starting college.
I'm a sophmore at a uni in Ohio, and I have yet to pay a dime out of pocket. All I've done is signed some loan paperwork, and I'll pay it back when I graduate.
College is no longer only for those with money, and I'm sick of hearing that exscuse. It just means you were to lazy to do any research.
yeah, if you lick both terminals at the same time like you would a 9 volt battery ;-)
But, um, no, you can touch both terminals at the same time with no ill effects, I've done it many many times. Now, if you run a 12 volt car battery through a transformer, such as to power your spark plugs, then yes, it can kill you.
As an employee of a small metal works company, I'd love to see you try to drop kick one of our 100lb 1/4" plate steel sheets triple wrapped in cardboard. But somehow, we stll have them go missing and get bent on the way there.
And couldn't be happier with it, besides just a few small things. I had a toshiba before this, and it was just as problematic.
The only thing I don't like about the HP (a ze4315) is that the case creaks when I open and close the screen, but thats just because its very tight, which I'd rather have than an easy to move screen.
The first thing I did when I got it was max out the ram by taking out the old stuff, and install a brand new copy of WinXP pro (I get it free through my college), and I have never had a problem with it since.