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Geek Culture / DeVry University (USA) Website issues

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 04:26
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I'm looking into DeVry University for my future career. However when I went on the site (http://www.devry.edu/) and clicked on the 'Request Information' link, it flashed a warning telling me that Mozilla Firefox couldn't identify the we certificate, for unknown reasons. I continued reading and the error message said it could be that some other site is pretending to be DeVry's site.

I'm just wondering, is anyone else getting this problem?


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Venge
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 04:28
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Works fine in Chrome.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 04:38
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Hmm. It just doesn't look that trustworthy..


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Zuka
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 05:01
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What's your system date and are you using a pirated version of Windows Vista?
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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 05:45
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Quote: "What's your system date and are you using a pirated version of Windows Vista?"


I'm running Windows XP (not pirated, lol). I dunno what my system date is, but I do know the computer is from 2003.


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bitJericho
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 06:02
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You have an outdated version of firefox?

Anyways, no security warnings in the latest version of firefox 3 here.

Since it's asking for personal information, I can understand your concern. I'd recommend trying it in a different browser. In almost all cases, it's just a false warning. Either your browser doesn't accept the issuer of the SSL certificate (ex. you're outdated), or the website didn't have their SSL certificate signed by a trusted issuer (ex. self-signed certificate).

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 06:09
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Quote: "You have an outdated version of firefox?"


Yeah...I do...it's version 2.0.0.17....


I'll update it tomorrow.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 06:47
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Devry has contracts with MS, and yes much of their web-based services will only work in IE. I have a BS from Devry and was annoyed everytime I could not access a lab or complete an exam without using IE and sometimes ActiveX controls. Though the homepage should work in any browser, I wouldn't be surprised if the web developer used code specific to IE.

Personally I would advise against Devry for obtaining any sort of education. Most subjects offer only a light overview and rarely offer any real in-depth knowledge. A state college would probably be better (and cheaper). I wish I had never wasted time and money in that corporation, I mean school.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 19:00
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Quote: "A state college would probably be better (and cheaper)."



I wondered about that, honestly. I'm still not even sure if I want to do game design as my career (though I really do like it). I'm definitely going to look into other schools though.


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Jeku
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 21:56
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I too would not recommend Devry, haven't you seen their crappy game design commercials? People "making levels" with Xbox controllers. Personally I have yet to meet a producer/designer who graduated from a "game design" program. Proceed with caution.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Jan 2009 23:58
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the game design program is not offered at every campus, just so you know. Yale, a few years back, had a real nice list of courses for a game design program. Unfortunately, I doubt I had any shot at getting in to Yale. If you're serious about game programming, there's a college in Washington that I've heard was rated #1 for game design.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 17th Jan 2009 00:35 Edited at: 17th Jan 2009 00:37
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Quote: "If you're serious about game programming, there's a college in Washington that I've heard was rated #1 for game design."


I think I am serious, however I'm still learning BASIC. I do now fully understand functions and subroutines (after reading the Binary Moon tutorials last October and even now), but I've yet to implement them into actual programs. I will in a few experiments after my current project is finished.

Also, I am home schooled, and I know that that can make it a bit more difficult to get into a college. Plus, money is REALLY tight in my family, so I think I'll have no choice but to look into a local college.

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I too would not recommend Devry, haven't you seen their crappy game design commercials? People "making levels" with Xbox controllers. Personally I have yet to meet a producer/designer who graduated from a "game design" program. Proceed with caution."


Yeah, I did see their commercials awhile back. Kinda fell for it too, thought it looked like a really cool school. But since some of the people I trust most on these forums have stepped up and told me to avoid DeVry, I'll start looking into another school. My friend John works at a college as a programmer, and it's really close. I'll ask him about costs and such.

Thanks for your opinion everyone!


Jeez, grammatical errors sure are fun.... lol.


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Jeku
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Posted: 17th Jan 2009 01:13 Edited at: 17th Jan 2009 01:16
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Quote: "If you're serious about game programming, there's a college in Washington that I've heard was rated #1 for game design."


Wait, put on the brakes. A programmer (software engineer) is a completely different career choice than game design. They are not the same in any University, and if any school tries to sell you on a combined program, DO NOT TAKE IT.

Programmer: C++, math, physics and logical minded direction.
Design: Design documents, planning, scoping, MS Project, creative.

Pick an avenue and stick with it

Speaking from personal experience of getting screwed out of a "Game Programming/Design" program and $12,000 in the process.


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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 17th Jan 2009 01:33
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Quote: "Programmer: C++, math, physics and logical minded direction.
Design: Design documents, planning, scoping, MS Project, creative."


I'm definitely more towards game 'designer'. I'm OK with math, but my math teacher (aka my mom) says I need to get better with it. I just don't get along too well with numbers if I'm distracted, but if there's no noise and nothing distracting I can usually concentrate on it pretty well. A.D.D. is not fun.

Anyway, game design...I really like designing levels, maybe I could go into a career as a level designer? Or a texture artist. Programming is definitely something I want to learn to do though. But I've looked at some excerpts of C++ and I almost fainted, lol. I think I could go as advanced as C# (eventually), but C++ just looks too complicated. Then again, so did BASIC last year...

Anyway, what's your guys' opinion on level designing as a career?


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Posted: 17th Jan 2009 02:05
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Well they do have level designers in the industry, so it's definitely a possibility if you have the skill I have absolutely no idea what it takes to get a job in the game industry as an artist, though, so I'm not the best one to ask about that.


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