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hi im currently in grade 12 i post this asking all the more the experienced to answers my problem is i want to study software development @ rhodes my only concern i have never done infomation technology in high school will i make it or am i wating my time in my grade 11 year i had 78% maths nd an aggregate of 79.67 im also considering studying quantitive finance at uct which one should i go for this is causing ambiguity in my brain how is software development different from game development would appreciate if any one can help (forgive me forgive the bad use of gramma)
 
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Learn to use punctuation and uppercase letters where necessary, those are going to be crucial should you persue a strongly typed programming language.:p
 
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Is this the standard of grade 12 pupils we are producing? :sick:

OP has bigger problems than figuring out what to study... A rudimentary understanding of English and writing would be a great start.
 
you do not need IT/computer science from high school .... you basically learn everything from scratch in uni anyways
 
k, wt knd of lng wuld u lk to lrn ? :-) Did i get it right ?

Well i recon its good to go with Web/WebApp & Database based languages everything is moving that way lately.

Just so you know, some of the best programmers out there used to be bad at school work marks don't count. :-)
If you are going into a gaming direction , then i suppose being good at Mathematics wont hurt.
 
Ignoring the grammar :-) :
- The degree won't assume school coverage of IT and programming.
- For quantative finance, my suggestion is to study CS, Stats and Applied Math, preferrably all to 3rd year, and then do hons in whichever field appeals to you most. I wouldn't touch any finance specific courses unless you do a maths Fin. Masters (of some sort) degree at some point. (although by all means read up on finance and requitsite quant skills in your own time). The most successful quants I know all did Stats, App Math or Physics PhDs and only looked at finance afterwards.
- software development is a much wider field than game development, although one (ever shrinking) aspect of game development is software development.

In my experience, given a choice between GD and QF, I suggest the latter. Much better career prospects, but does require that you are able to find enjoyment in the different aspects of maths/stats and finance. The fact that QF could be more fun than GD for a lot of people is very counter intuitive at the high school or even undergraduate level, but the crazy thing, is that this is often the case.
 
No they are not dicks. Software development is all about following rules and conventions. Barandon can't even write English properly, how is he going to fare in any of the c based languages where he will have a lot more than full stops to worry about?

We are not saying that he can't but he will have to focus hard on improving his writing. I've got a feeling he wrote that on a cellphone and even though it's not an excuse it is a lot harder if it's maybe an old phone.

To answer your question Barandon. It's not necessary to have done information technology at school. It will help though if you have a strong logical mind. Your maths mark is good and that's always a good sign. If you can, go read up about programming as much as you can. Pick a language and a free IDE and compiler and work through some tutorials. Look to see if you really like it.

You can get Visual Studio Express for free and then you can try out C#. I'm not too sure if it's the best language for a new programmer but I'm a fan. Then go through these tutorials: http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/csharp/csharp.html

Not just read through them, actually work through them.

As for game development well that's a beast on its own. Game development requires work from a lot of different fields, not just programming. You can get Unity for free and maybe play with that to give you an idea: http://unity3d.com/
 
Regardless of whether you are on a phone or not, there is still no excuse to conduct yourself so poorly.

Personally I think it makes you look very unprofessional as well as borderline retarded. Unfortunately this is the product of the schooling system but regardless, people couldn't be bothered to better themselves.

Barandon, you're always welcome at my place to mow the grass and clean the floors, and if you do it quickly I'll teach you to read and right with the spare time.
 
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Regardless of whether you are on a phone or not, there is still no excuse to conduct yourself so poorly.

Personally I think it makes you look very unprofessional as well as borderline retarded. Unfortunately this is the product of the schooling system but regardless, people couldn't be bothered to better themselves.

Barandon, you're always welcome at my place to mow the grass and clean the floors, and if you do it quickly I'll teach you to read and right with the spare time.
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I rofl'ed.

But ^^vampire^^ its 'write' not right, my garden also needs attention so you are more than welcome as well ^^vampire^^. ;)
 
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^^vampire^^ said:
Regardless of whether you are on a phone or not, there is still no excuse to conduct yourself so poorly.

Personally I think it makes you look very unprofessional as well as borderline retarded. Unfortunately this is the product of the schooling system but regardless, people couldn't be bothered to better themselves.

Barandon, you're always welcome at my place to mow the grass and clean the floors, and if you do it quickly I'll teach you to read and right with the spare time.
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:D
 
This is the exact reason why South Africa is so full of code monkeys and not developers.
 
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