Entries tagged with getting a job - Channel 8

Getting a Gaming Job, Round Table Edition

Clint — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:57:00 GMT

After spending hours attempting to get as many game developers in a room as possible, I managed to track down Ian Lewis from the XNA team at Microsoft, Andrew Brownsword from EA, Kent Quirk from Linden Labs which make Second Life. I may or may not have used an Xbox 360 with Rockband primed as bait.

As usual, I asked them what a student should know. They talked about figuring out how to solve problems, working in teams, writing good code, the coding or testing hat, and a bunch more.

While these are game developers, almost everything they mention directly translates to normal development.

Getting a Job - Blizzard Edition

Clint — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:51:00 GMT

John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment gave me a chance to sit down and chat with him during the Academic Days Gaming Conference.

We talked about “hard skills” such as math, namely algebra and calculus. If plan on taking advanced mathematics and plan to do game development, he recommends linear algebra and advance calculus. With Computer Science, John recommends C++ since nothing has really passed it yet in the industry as the primary programming language. He also talks about data structures and algorithms.

He talks about doing projects and about how the art doesn’t matter for your games. People understand you're not an artist. In addition, finish your work! Having half finished projects isn’t a way to impress people. Have a polished game!

On top of all these “hard skills”, John goes in about “soft skills” like talking to people.

Getting a job in the Video Game Industry - XNA Team

Clint — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Frank Savage from Microsoft Gaming Studios chatted with myself (Clint Rutkas) and Dan Waters regarding students developing with Hardware, games he worked on such as Wing Commander, Shaders, and as always, how to get a job (in gaming).

On top of Frank Savage, I have additional interviews with individuals from Blizzard, EA, Midway, and Linden Labs (makers of Second Life) that I'll be posting in the future.

Ch8 @ MIX08 - Day 3 - Robert Scoble, Facebook and more..

campusK0der — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:25:00 GMT

This is the last video of the CH8 @ MIX08 series - Day 3 Interviews, I got a chance to talk to some amazing people.

I hope you enjoyed the little mini series, and seen the bonus interviews of geekSpeak and theCodeTrip bus.

Here is who I talked to on the 3rd day at MIX08:

@ Web 2.0 sustainability & biz models panel:

Dave McClure - Talks about careers and his facebook class at Stanford

Robert Scoble- Gives lots of advice to students

@ Social networks panel:

David Morin - Talks about the facebook platform

@ OpenSpace labs:

Giorgio Sardo, Microsoft, talks about silverlight mobile

Ch8 @ MIX08 - Interviews Day 1 & 2

campusK0der — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:02:00 GMT

See the first two days at MIX08 through student eyes.
I had a great experience and I hope you enjoy it.
Here is some of the coverage I did for you guys at MIX08.

Dan Waters, ADE - says good morning

Following people give advise to students:

Day 1:

Jim Duffy, TakeNote.com

Rob Zelt, ASP.NET MVP

Miguel de Icaza, MONO Project

Infragistics crew

Day 2:

Andrew Flick , infragistics, past MS Student Ambassador

PIXEL8 Community - new podcast site for UX

David Laribee - CodeBetter.com

Day 3 coming very soon.

Mono, the other .Net, that runs on Linux

Clint — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:23:00 GMT

At Mix '08, I had the privilege to interview Miguel de Icaza. He is the Vice President of the Developer Platform at Novell and does the Mono Project. Now what exactly is the Mono Project and why is it a big deal? It is an open source version of .Net that runs on Linux and they are even creating a version of Silverlight called moonlight.

And as always, we chat about what he thinks a student should do to get a job in the industry.

Want a job? See what industry wants! Part 2 of 2

Clint — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:00:00 GMT

During the Visual Studio 2008 installfest in Des Moines, Iowa, I managed to get some of the programmers to take a few minutes and tell me what they would like to see in students. You'll notice a few reoccurring themes that everyone wants in a new hire. I managed to get two Evangelists from Microsoft to also be part of the interview.

Want a job? See what industry wants! Part 1 of 2

Clint — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:33:00 GMT