Let's straighten this confusion up right now. I'm a self-taught programmer from books from Barnes and Nobles, took only one class at Tidewater Community College in C++ programming and C programming in UNIX/LINUX into one class. I'm currently in Axia College and all they teach is a bunch of classes that consume your time and money in believing somebody is getting a career when most of the credits apply to academics instead of the intended major(programming, is what I am getting at here. What I've seen in these classes are some good and some bad things. Some good things that the programming class in C++ taught some very good items about classes and other basic things, but that' all. I just don't call myself a programmer unless I can prove that I can program. I guess that I am an intermediate programmer that is self-taught and have been writing codes for some time now since my arrival in Virginia from 2066. I started to program during 2008 until now. I intend to produce a game or something that is useful for the media, and thus getting some advice from other people out there are in the same field as me. I know, I expect more if I am paying some cash for this class. From the UNIX class I learned a few things, other than the operating system UNIX/LINUX, such as a hello world program(it is useless unless it's made for beginner's)and taught some things about opening and closing a file with fopen and fclose functions, which was neat and all but those were the simplest of things that some employers would laugh at. The reason why I want somebody to email me is to get people across the globe to acknowledge what I'm going instead of in a small geographic area, which is useless and wouldn't get me far. I basically don't want anybody to debug this program, but to provide a portfolio the media instead of blabbing about what I can and cannot do to random people but people with some experience, that can give me pointers how to make it better or what would the public want in these codes for a game or an application.

Yes, I am. Did you see my videos on You Tube with the Trivia Mania series I've created. It is quite simple, don't you think? I could add more to it, but it would be a fricking headache. What did you think about the little games I've created on my spare time? Maybe somebody may want it? Would it actually be worth anything in the gaming market, other than XBOX 360 games I mean?

I've tried everything to switch, it all seems to fail. I wanted to switch to web design, but it would be the same kind of thing I'm going through now with no job in it and all. I've done some self-taught codes in java script and html and it doesn't look that hot or appealing to employers, even if I did go some school to teach me more crap that probably is basic and not in-depth with details and examples to get a jump start on a career for myself.

What I really mean is how do you get a job in the programming business even if you coded for so long from self-teaching when these employers are looking for 5 years of experience that cannot be obtained without shadowing a mentor or somebody to get there. I really think that getting a Bachelor's degree in programming is quite useless in some cases when most employers hope for you to have additional experience anyway. So what is the use, really? I'm self-taught from Barnes and Nobles and I say that I've learned a lot from Johnathan Harbour, Michael Dawson, and Jesse Liberty. I would recommend these authors in programming if you want to pursue anything relating to programming without going to college.

I actually did read a lot of books from C programming and C++ programming by interesting authors who paid professional writers to publish their works over the years. I obtained this information from Barnes and Nobles and pretty much taught myself from Michael Dawson, Johnathon Harbour, and Jesse Liberty. They're really good at what they do. I went to this one class that only taught a few things about classes, objects, and many other programmer jargon. Maybe I did choose the wrong school or none of these schools really build up what I want them to that makes the entire experience ridiculous to stay in. You had some good points.

I will give somebody some codes if they want: here is a sample for free: #include using namspace std; int main() { cout<<"Welcome to the funnest game alive."<>song; if(song == "Imagine") { cout<<"If you got Imagine, that's correct."<>book; if(book == "IT") { cout<<"Yes, that's it."<Timothy Hosey

I've been a programmer without school training for 3 years now and I cannot even imagine where to start. Is there anybody out there that can help me get started, other than going to some stupid school for training(I'm already at school and they hardly teach crap about programming in a vast way but in a watered-down version). I've created a command-prompt based game where it asks you trivia questions at random of which I wrote to print messages to the screen if they were right or wrong and then continue to the next question. It took me about an hour to come up with some questions and then compiled it, ran it, and tested it. It runs fine. If anybody wants to see the code, I can email it to your email address if you want. If you have any questions or would like codes from me, email me at computerman.hosey@yahoo.com or jerseydude23@hotmail.com don't worry I'm not a fisher that will steal any pertinent information from you. All I want is some recognition from programming, that's all I ask.