Hi everyone, i’m Kyle from the UK, just started the Course after purchasing it a while back, always been interested in coding, and making games in general, started messing around with Lua code when i was just a little kid and am now doing a Computer Science (Game Development) course in university, I’d love to be able to put some of my game concepts into working projects as i develop my skills across the board with game development and it’d be great to meet some new friends and likeminded people interested in similar things.
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Hi Kyle! My name is Michael from Greece. You will love this place, as it has a healthy community, people willing to help and the courses teach you a lot. Hope you enjoy it and make lots of new friends!
Good to hear it, having a good community can really make a difference, going through the Bull Cow Game and it’s already so clear and well presented. More than worth the money.
Oh yeah, the work the team puts is amazing and they are helping us build very, very strong foundation for the future.
I’ve been doing Python and about to start Java in my Uni course and Ben and Sam are doing a much better job teaching than any of my university lecturers have done, same goes for my college and school eductation too, the more I complete the more I want to do. So glad I got this when I did.
Oh you cannot imagine my frustration when I found out about these guys and I was already done with my Uni degree. So much more I could do earlier, but I am still grateful I ended up here. Besides, it is the same everywhere, all schools, colleges, universities, will just lay the groundwork. The more money we spend on tuition and all that, should theoretically improve this groundwork.
One would like to think it’d improve, i got this course and others discounted on HumbleBundle and the content for price is crazy good, £9,000+ per year of education in the UK and for these courses even at full price are better value for money than any course as a proper educational institute in my experience
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better value for money than any course as a proper educational institute in my experience
Both have strengths and weaknesses.
My findings on the differences:
University = you get taught all that you’re expected to know for a position which is the real reason why getting hired is more likely. The degree is just a thing that says you learned something.
Self = you learn a much wider variety of things and get 100% hands on experience but learning tends to go outside the scope of one position and not necessarily all of a position either. The ability to do a job in eg a corporation should not be as efficient as a result right off the bat so less likely to get hired.
The funniest thing that always makes me laugh is that not all that long ago - and some the top most people still as well - didn’t go to university because there wasn’t anything for computers. The only reason why its needed today, is because every year is still built upon the last, and that’s a lot of complex stuff for people starting out.
I must just be having a lot of bad experiences then, I’ve studied at 2 colleges and currently at uni…
The first college (Software, Hardware and games development) each topic was covered by different people who were meant to understand the topic… the hardware was alright and we got the support, but anything software or games related we got nothing… tutors didn’t know answers to any questions, the networking guy couldn’t spell “fibre optic” in the slideshows made for the lessons.
2nd college more specialised (Game design and Development) anything to do with development most solutions I had to work out for myself which I like doing anyway, but it got to the point I was asking questions for support with the assignments and got back “you know more than i do” which annoyed me to say the least…
Now at uni we’re having lectures where pretty much weekly us the students are correcting errors made during the lectures repeatedly that the lecturer hasn’t realised and can’t work out.
Apologies for the big wall of text but that’s just part of my experience, and from it my opinion is that College/Uni just gives you a piece of paper saying you’ve done something.
That’s definitely not great lol. Hopefully, they would at least guarantee you a job after but it sounds like none of those would do that either.