I'm curious about how many programmers, code monkeys or whatever name is most appropriate, there are on VGC. 

Join in, and talk about your work here.

I'm studying for a bachelor degree in software engineering at the moment, and just finished my latest project a couple of weeks ago. My group and I made our own compiler, pretty interesting to know what's going on in there. Once I have my bachelor, I want to take a master's degree in game programming, so I can get to work in the industry hopefully!

My favorite language is C# at the moment, but I'm widening my horizon and trying to learn Haskell on my own. Haskell is definitely a fascinating language when you're used to object oriented programming in the likes of C# and Java.

So how about you guys?

Cool, you've certainly gotten around then.

I haven't really tried assembly, but I'm the kind of guy who tries to get away from the metal. Assembly is scary.

The fact that Rollercoaster Tycoon is written almost exclusively in assembly is mindblowing to me!

That's what this thread is for though. Discussing the stuff that we do. It's nice to have a place where you can ask why someone likes low level programming better than high level programming and get an actual answer.

Well most people who know me on here know im a c# developer educated to HND level, previously working on e-learning solutions.
Since my unemployent I leant many new languages including java and I am hoping to get a job I applied for at a college as a web site developer, as I also have experience in web site development including HTML/XML/Javascript/ASP.

I am, perhaps, an aspiring programmer/software engineer. I have pretty much 0 exp aside from very little CSS... what are the reqs for getting accepted to a software engineering/programming faculty in university? How hard is it? How deep is math involved? (I heard conflicting answers!), are you enjoying it? Anything else I should know of?

THANKS!

I do some programming in DarkBasic Pro, and going to be expanding into Lua. My background is in music, but I wanted to get into putting a videogame together eventually. Mostly these days, my world is audio and video editing movies tho.

I think I already answered this for you before, so I don't know if I can tell you that much new. But I'll try regardless.

You should look up the requirements at the university you want to study at, the requirements are likely different depending on where you want to study and what kind of programming courses they have. Generally, some good math skills are likely required to get in, but you will not necessarily be using them (depending on what you plan on doing).

If you end up solving mathematical problems (which includes dealing with movement and physics), you might want to make sure you at least have a decent handle on math, but you can end up doing work that doesn't really require a lot of math too. It's hard to tell before you get into it.

Personally, I'm really enjoying it, and it's not always easy, but the difficulty feels appropriate. The only real way to learn programming is to get your hands dirty and get coding. Getting experience is always a good thing here.

Im in college for game programming. me and a few friends are trying to complete a few games before we graduate. So i pretty much learned how to use 3ds max and a game engine called unity pretty good. Programming wise i still have a bit to go, but im alright so far lol. Me and my team are trying to sell one of our games on the android or iphone market its actually pretty cheap using the engine were using.

By the way, what is it that makes you like your favorite language most of all? I'm curious as to why people prefer the languages they do.

For me, I really like C# because it's easy to use, it's something I'm very familiar with and it's vast and extremely well documented.
But Haskell is really growing on me. It's structure is so different from the imperative and object oriented language, I really like the focus on recursion and the generic type system.

I graduated from university in 2004 and have been working as a developer since 2001 ...

When I was in University I spent some time working with a shovelware developer that was in town but went bankrupt long before I graduated. Since then I have worked on contract and full time positions primarily as a web developer; and, while I have worked with .Net, most of my development experience is based on the JVM (Java, Groovy, Scala) and lately I have mostly been focused on Grails.