May 12, 2010

The Hierarchy of Degree Usefulness

I was thinking today about what ranks the most useful degree to graduate with, and what should rank the lowest. The rankings are based partly on difficulty of said degree, but mostly on the usefulness of the qualification towards getting a job or benefitting society.

In order, from most to least useful:

Medicine
Law
Engineering (Civil / Mechanical / Electrical)
Physics
Chemistry
Education
Foreign Languages
Computer Science
Biology
English
Mathematics
Marine Biology
Geology
Politics
History
Geography
Women’s Studies
Sociology
Sports Science
Psychology
Drama
Music
Art

Now there will no doubt be people with art degrees who will disagree with me, but those people should ask themselves just how useful their degree really was in obtaining their current employment with McDonalds.

komakino @ 12:09 pm

February 22, 2010

Some perls of wisdom

That’s not a spelling mistake, I’m talking Perl the programming language.

I’ve known for a long time about Frozen Bubble, the excellent Bust-A-Move (puzzle bubble) clone written in Perl, but a search for other games revealed virtually nothing! This both shocked and saddened me: Perl is a great language for game programming. It might not have the compiled speed and efficiency of C, but as frozen bubble has shown, it’s perfectly capable of some 2D gaming action.

So with that in mind I aim to write a simple game in perl and SDL to fill the void.

What I’m aiming for is something based around parapper the rapper and horse racing. A wild combination, I know, but start simple and work up…

komakino @ 9:34 pm

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