Oh right thanks you two, made things much clearer I had no idea what those programs were so was a bit baffled reading. I hope you are enjoying learning though. Out of curiosity what is the next step from learning computer science in terms of career/jobs? Is it like game development stuff or a broad spectrum of jobs and such- office work things? Only asking because it's really a field that I just don't have any knowledge about.
Really if you want to do computer science as a job you need to learn a bit about coding. Languages n shiz depends on what you want to do. Yea, there is a pretty broad spectrum of what you can do. Game dev, Web dev, managing servers, and plenty more. You can look them up on google pretty easily.
Think I'll try and learn lots about web dev in the future. Seems like a skill that'll be very useful to have
When it comes to web dev, you kind of need to skilled in both design and programming. Maybe not super skilled in both, but you need to have a basic understanding of both. Programming wise, you should look at learning PHP and JavaScript. Design wise, learn html5 and css. You can probably find an IDE devoted to web dev that will make both tasks easier, either through code suggestions and completion for programming, or a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for the design side.
I'll read up about it see if it's something I'd like to learn more about. I know a lot of people who could use web dev skills so I'm sure it'll be a practical skill to have. Especially when finding a job at the moment is really really difficult. Enhancing your skill set can't be a bad move
1. Desired nickname Amber or M'ber 2. Age and preferred gender pronoun (optional) 35, She 3. You can put what letter (LGBTQA...and so forth) if you want. Or don't. Whatever. Lt. 4. Describe yourself, and stuff. I love to explore in games, explore new lands, meet new people, and kill.. uhmm.. i mean, make friends. the killing is only if they start it. As my profile pic shows i'm big into steampunk, i love a bit of roleplaying but need to be able to be OOC (out of character) as well. I've made a background story which came to mind when i applied to the dragonriders, and i'm sticking to it. (specially as the dragonriders don't seem to be active anymore) 5. Why do you want to join (aside from the fact that it's awesome)? To boldly game where no.. wait, no.. that wasn't it. To be amongst likeminded people, where we won't be judged because of who we are or like. 6. Are you going to follow the rules? Yup b). Really? most probably yes. (i'm not clairvoyent you know. I do intend to follow them!) Ok, background story i cooked up for my starbound char. M'ber and the Great Divide M'ber dropped out of Between and plummeted down. A moment of disorientation was all she could afford before she realised that Tameth was not with her. Looking down she sighed in relief as the surface she was rapidly approaching turned out to be water. Self-preservation persevered and she twisted her body into a diving pose, Hands together, arms stretched downward to protect her head, and minimize the impact of her body on the waves below. The cold water enveloped her, swallowed her whole, though the cold was nothing compared to the icy chill of going Between. Quickly she twisted her body, trying to divert her direction sideways instead of down, feeling little for breaking her neck on the bottom of this body of water. Luck was with her though, and she came to a stop with the bottom not even in sight. Immediately she began to swim up again. 10 large swim strokes further she seemed to be no closer to the surface. Panic started to get a hold on her, and her strokes became a bit more desperate. 20 strokes....30... Her lungs felt like they would collapse any moment now. From how high up had she fallen to get this deep? The pressure on her ears was maddening, but finally the light above her seemed to get brighter and with a few more strokes she broke the surface. A few minutes were spent catching her breath. The first thought after survival was for her dragon, her lovely blue Tameth. She had fled Between with him as some of the southern oldtimers had decided that she offended him. She suffered a hit to the head just as Tameth was going Between, causing her to lose her focus. For all it was worth, she should’ve stayed Between. Why did she drop out? Life really wasn’t worth living without Tameth. But just as she was about to give up she noticed that his presence in her mind was not gone. The aching emptiness that was described by those who lost their dragon was missing, and in the back of her mind she still felt him. It was faint, yes, but he was still there. He was alive. He was ALIVE! Her will to live, no her need to live flared up. She could not die. She would not die. For dying meant that her Tameth would also die, and she could never do that to him. She had to find him. But to do so, she would first need to know where she was. Looking around for the first time, initially all she could see was water. Was this it? Had she survived a trip through Between alone only to drown in Perns vast oceans? No! She refused to accept this, Peering along the horizon she tried to decided which direction to swim. What would give her the best chance at survival? Still trying to make up her mind as to what to do, a weird sound softly made itself heard amongst the splashing of water. It reminded her somewhat of a mosquito, albeit in a more even tone. It sounded deeper too, and very loud as it seemed to be a vast distance away. Peering into the direction the noise seemed to come from, she squinted her eyes against the overly bright blue sky. The sky seemed to have the wrong color, but M’ber subscribed this to her own addled senses from the fall she took. Out of the blue a dot appeared against the sky. Was it a dragon? Quickly she discarded that idea. The line it made against the horizon was way too straight for it to be a dragon, and it seemed to be leaving behind a trail of white smoke. Besides, no dragon she had ever heard made sounds like that. For a brief moment she considered that who or whatever was coming her way might not be friendly. It wouldn’t matter though. Even if they were not friendly, they were her best chance of survival at the moment, her best chance of being reunited with Tameth. As it came closer it turned out to be a flying ship of some sort. Though how they had managed to find enough metal to make a ship like that, and how they managed to get such a heavy contraption off the ground was beyond her. She looked up worriedly as the thing hovered above her, half fearing it would stop functioning and crash right on top of her. A panel on the side of the contraption slid open, and a rope ladder was extended from it.as soon as it was within reach she grabbed for it. She’d only been swimming for about 15 minutes, but as her rescue was in sight, the adrenaline left her body and she could feel all too well the weariness from her impromptu swim. She hoisted herself up the ladder, and climbed up. A young woman wearing a weird and bulky orange vest like thing around her neck guided her in. The ladder was pulled in as well, and the panel slid shut. The noise which was almost overwhelming when she was outside was completely shut out. “Sme ne tren di kavel?” the woman asked her, as she led M’ber to a seat. “What? I’m sorry, I have no idea what you are saying!” M’ber replied. The woman’s face got a look of understanding for a second as she reached behind her. She got a jar with fluid from one of the bags, put her hand in it and brought it to M’bers ear. Before she realised what the woman did it felt like something slithered down my ear. For a moment it felt really odd and then it felt like there was nothing in her ear at all. “Mwam A pwut in your ear is known as the bablefish. It feeds on brainwaves and passes them on to you directly. As it passes on the basic thought patterns, it removes any language barrier in existence. Mind bogglingly useful! Now lets try again. Who are you and how did you appear right here in the middle of the ocean?” “My name’s M’ber and I got lost Between when I somehow got seperated from Tameth.” M’ber started to explain. The woman held up her hand for M’ber to stop, laughing a beautiful smile. “Hold on a sec there hun, Amber you said? My name’s Jeska” not waiting for M’bers reply she continued, “What’s this ‘Between’ you speak of? You make no sense.” Confused at such a common notion as Between being unknown to this woman she did a double take. Devices like these were unknown on Pern.. at least in her time. Did she somehow follow Lessa’s example and go Between times? “Between is where we go when we travel instantly from one place or time to another. It’s a place of nothing, of cold, of being nowhere. How do you not know this. Anyone on Pern knows this. When am I?” she asked. “Pern? This isn’t Pern Amber, this is Earth, and as for when? You say you can travel through time? It’s 1250 after FC, which stands for First Contact, the time we first met people from other worlds and started trading with those worlds. But I doubt that would mean much to you, as I don’t believe you originate from this planet.” “It’s M’ber, not Amber” M’ber replied. Jeska looked confused for a moment. “Wasn’t that what I said?” M’ber shrugged. It was close enough, and it didn’t really matter. The contraction would make sense again when she had her dragon back. “Not Pern? That could explain why I only feel Tameth’s presence, but not his actual feelings or thoughts.” M’ber muttered. “Who is this Tameth you are speaking of Amber?” “Tameth is my dragon, i impressed on him 11 turns ago. I need to find him again, but I doubt he’s on this planet. On Pern I could sense him anywhere on the planet. How do I go about looking for him?” “A... A dragon? Oh my.. And looking for him would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But.. you can feel him you say? If you come close enough... yes.. you might be able to find him that way..You could try the Starbound project.” The rest, as they say, is history oooh.. and edited to the right hex color
1. Desired nickname Whodicea 2. Age and preferred gender pronoun (optional) 20 and he. Or she. Don't care. 3. You can put what letter (LGBTQA...and so forth) if you want. Or don't. Whatever. Allies 4. Describe yourself, and stuff. I play games, write stuff and build stuff. I also do art, but I'm not very good. I'm rather creative with things, so yeah. 5. Why do you want to join (aside from the fact that it's awesome)? Mostly for the name. A couple years ago I created this character that was originally a joke character; a rainbow-haired god who liked to play around. fast forward to now, where he's a completely different kind of character, is totally awesome, and now I have a penchant for rainbows. 6. Are you going to follow the rules? Yeah. b). Really? Sure, why not?
I wouldn't call myself a game dev. I'm messing around with RPGMaker. It contains some very simple scripting, but I wouldn't call it anything near real scripting (well, not the stuff i've done, i know its possible though). I'd love to do more intricate stuff but my attention sp.... oooh! shiny!
Thank you Zooey! Soooo.. its slightly on the largish side, but i has made me a sig, mixing background story, a spacey atmosphere and rainbows! no pony though..
Gamemaker(long before Yo Yo games bought it) and RPG Maker '98, were the first two things I messed with. They might not help you learn a specific language, but they help you learn boolean logic and how games are structured. Some people have made pretty awesome things with RPG Maker and Gamemaker.
:grins: i know boolean logic and programming, i've dabbled with a bunch of languages.. i just get bored with most of them before i get in too far. What i need for my rpgmaker tale (nekonomicon.. tacky, i know, sue me!) is an actual story line, beyond finding a pentagram in a hidden passage in ones basement that suddenly give you magic and fighting abilities. I'm thinking of maybe making it really tacky by using a "take this and go! no time to explain!" approach to it.. but yeah..
I've been playing Gone Home the last two days. It's an interactive book i guess? You wander through a house finding notes and tidbits of the story, slowly figuring out what happened. The reason i'm posting it here is because of the lesbian story behind it. It at two points made me bawl my eyes out. The games short, kinda odd, has a weird tension to it, but was pretty fun to play. also, not my original content but this made me smile
