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Geek Culture / A levels - For Game Programming and Design

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Gingerkid Jack
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2009 19:02
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Hi, basically Im a year into my GSCE's and I chose:

ICT
Drama
Art
Spanish

I just wanted to know what A levels (If I pass my GSCE's lol) would I need to go onto Game Programming. I also hope I chose the right GSCEs for the job. I would obviously need ICT and I was told English however I'm not sure about maths or art? What do you guys think?

Thanks

Jack

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Darth Kiwi
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I'm not sure if it's the same where you go to school, but in my school, IT or ICT is basically "learn how to use MS Word". The "real" computer-subject is Computing: you learn about algorithms, the structure of the CPU, you do a bit of coding etc. Make sure you investigate that before you pick one for your A-Level.

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Van B
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Math is probably the most important, even more important than ICT I'd say. Not just A-Level though, really you need to be able to expand on your math skills so concentrating on them now is a good idea.

Physics is pretty handy too.


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ShaunRW
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In IT I'm learning HTML,PHP,JavaScript,css and all the learn how to use MS Word. Well its not game programing but at the end i get coding experience.

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Gingerkid Jack
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2009 19:41
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Yes, In my school we call it IT but when I do my A levels it will be in computing.

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David R
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2009 19:48 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2009 19:49
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Definitely maths if you can, computing, and maybe Physics.

That said, a lot of the unis I visited (Durham, Birmingham and Warwick) expressed a lot of interest in worded analytical subjects along with Maths (English Lit, History etc.) that prove you can actually write coherently/logically in something other than equations or code.

I assume it's not 'expected', but if you can't afford to fill out all your choices with maths and sciences and need a humanities subject, go for an analytical one over anything else (I'm doing History at A2, and that forms part of my offers for CompSci/SoftEng)


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Robin
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yep:
Maths, Physics, Computing, and another if you're going to do 4 A levels.
I can recommend a language - if you're doing spanish gcse you may want to consider doing it at A level too. Uni's *really* like people who have studied foreign languages, esp because very few people seem to do so nowerdays. It's a good skill to have. I studied German at A-level and I think it helped me get into a good uni. You should also have a very good grasp of the language after 2 years of learning a language which is
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