Short Takes: December 15, 2010
By SD Times Editorial Board
December 15, 2010 —
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Just do it
Earlier this month, I taught a class of high school kids at Stanford for a weekend of learning. My course was specifically about how they should handle college in regards to getting a job in the video-game industry. But as the class went on, I found myself repeating the same message, over and over: Just do it.
If you want a job in the games industry, I said, make games. If you want to be a programmer, teach yourself to program. Don't sign up for a class that starts in five weeks. Go home and Google up a tutorial right now. If you want to design video games, then you'd better go play a ton of them. And learn by doing.
Of course, I told them where to find the right tools and books to help them, but the fundamental message is one that I find myself ruminating upon. When I was the age of these kids, I remember the boundless energy and interest I could bring to bear on a topic. I sometimes miss that dedication, but I also realize that it was my love of computers in those years that got me where I am today.
So to the parents of all those kids, I apologize if they turn into basement-dwelling, game-addicted programmers. Hopefully they'll get rich and take care of you in your old age. — Alex Handy
Last call for Symbian stuff
Dec. 17 will be a sad day for Symbian devotees as the Symbian Foundation shuts down its websites, including the main website, developer sites, and blog and ideas sites, which were used for suggestions to improve the Symbian mobile operating system.
According to the foundation’s blog, anyone interested in the source code for the current version of the operating system, kits, wiki, bug database, or reference documentation should download it before Dec. 17. If anyone tries to access the content afterwards, expect to wait until Jan. 31, 2011 when the content is done being prepared, the foundation said.
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