Ray Devore wrote: > --- "Joseph A. Marrero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thank you Thomas for your advice. Here are some of >> my >> remarks: >> >> $60k a year salary is not asking for that much. I >> have seen >> VB jobs that pay over that amount. Furthermore, this >> is the >> starting rate at the *big* software giants >> (Microsoft, IBM, >> et cetera). > > Too bad the *big* software giants are not in force in > south Florida.
As I said, $60K is a tad high for an _entry-level_ programmer. They probably also want VB programmers with prior experience (i.e. non-entry-level). >> As for my spelling/grammatical ignorance...well... I >> studied Computer Science and not English at the >> university. >> Sorry :( > > For most degrees at US universities, there is a > requirement to take English courses, no matter what > your major is. If your GPA is 3.5 you had to do well > in the English classes also. Employers care more about English than you think. Spelling, grammar, and good communication skills are perhaps more important than your ability to program (although that is important too). >> The RAR compression format is superior to the zip >> file >> format. For the 100MB web space that I own, I must >> utilize >> every byte wisely, and RAR helps me achieve this. RAR is not superior to ZIP where users are concerned. Users are going to look at that and say "What is this?" and move on...perhaps to the next resume. >> Pong was my first OpenGL game. It has a bug in which >> some >> users experience the problems that you mentioned. I >> haven't >> realized what the problem is exactly, but I think it >> could >> be related to vsync being required. I will try to >> correct >> this once I am done with my more interesting >> projects. > > Part of Thomas' comment on Pong was that the game Pong > related to ping-pong. Your game does not look like > pong. It looks mor like Breakout/Brick Breaker/etc. It is definitely Breakout (on drugs - kind of reminds me of running the game "Popcorn" on a 486SX...which, BTW, was a sweet game when it didn't lock up the computer). I've written at least two different Breakout games...so I should know. That brings up an interesting point - I've never written a Pong clone... (Done Space Invaders and Nibbles, though). Although I've never made a Windows game - my stuff was generally for embedded hardware - I have a pretty good idea on how to make one. >> The rain simulation has demanding CPU requirements >> as it >> must keep 3 large meshes in memory and speed time to >> transform each. Programmers, especially those who write games, don't give up. If I gave up as easily as you did, VerifyMyPC would never have gone out the door and seen the light of day. And I'm still working on more performance improvements and new features*. I've seen water simulations that are way better looking perform smoothly on my lousy hardware. * I'm currently re-writing my socket library due to a little enlightenment I received. I'm expecting to see a huge performance boost in the GUI as a result (and possibly the elimination of a troublesome bug in the core engine). -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
