LOL! On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 07:31 AM, Tim Mensch wrote: > >> On 6/6/2011 7:32 AM, Fred Howe wrote: >> >>> Hey Aaron - do you know of any good android developers who also have >>> at least 3 yrs of java? I know of a start-up company doing some cool >>> gaming projects. Pay is good. Let me know. >>> >> It looks like you didn't mean to send this to the list, but I can't help >> myself -- why would they be looking at three years of Java for an >> Android developer? Most game developers I know have years of C/C++ >> experience, and I would be far more confident hiring an experienced game >> developer than hiring an experienced Java developer. >> >> Frankly, making the C/C++ to Java transition is pretty easy -- a few >> weeks at most to get to 95%. But making the transition from non-game >> programmer to game programmer can take months or years. And some >> programmers never really figure out game development (I've encountered >> several in that category with years of experience). >> >> Tim >> > > Back during the 1990s it was hard to find people who could do game > programming or more particularly deal with hard deadlines that execs cook up > to tell the analysts. DOD programmers were particularly difficult to get > make something come in on schedule. Tim did some good contract work for my > company too. I tend to agree that Java is fairly easy for a experienced > C/C++ programmer. I am often moving code back and forth between those two > languages and often it is just changing the function call or how a pointer > works. Inside the function it may be the exact same code. > > We also hired some young programmers who weren't happy because we didn't > immediately let the become a game designer. So we started a little program > where anyone in the company could submit a game proposal. What people > learned from that was they weren't game designers. :-D > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
