Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rikki Prince" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Decisions about my future Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:33:31 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 27 Message-ID: <864sif$3vi1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: th-en136-248.pool.dircon.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 I'm coming towards the end of my GCSEs and need to look towards the future. I'm hoping to stay on at my school's 6th form (depending on my GSCE results) to do A-Levels, so need to decide which A-Levels I'm going to do. At the moment I'm thinking of doing A-Levels in Physics, Maths and Further Maths, and doing one of the new half or AS-Levels in IT (as I my school does not offer computing, though are thinking about offering a half course in it in time for my second year of 6th form). Do these sound the types of subjects I need to be doing to get onto a Uni. course in either Computer Science or Software Engineering? Also, which would be better for getting into the games programming industry? I ask this after reading an article on Gamasutra about how Software Engineering would be better on the theory that in product making when done by scientists is only in the prototype stage (as it is usually being researched and developed), and not safe to be released into the public, but when the engineers create a product it is better for release, and that this theory should also apply to programming. (At least I think that was the gist of it.) Anyway, I digress. I basically would like some advice on which subjects to do at A-Level, what I should do at university (possibly where would be a good place to do it), and also how should I go about trying to get work experience. My school does not organise work experience, but instead offer 'work shadowing', but none of the options on their list have anything to do with (games) programming. Is there anyway I could get a list of PSX developers in the SE of England? Cheers, Rikki