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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
I was like your son when I was in high school, wanted to do coding and be a game developer. Enrolled in the Computer Science course at SAIT but it wasn't very long into the first semester that I realized coding wasn't for me. I was much better at the hardware side of things, so I dropped out of that course and went into Computer Engineering instead (thankfully several classes were transferrable so the first semester wasn't a total waste). From my professional experience though, a diploma or degree is only important for that first foot in the door, and sometimes not even then. Once you're in the IT field experience and certifications are way more important than any post-secondary schooling. And I'm not sure about UoC, but I know there are several programs at SAIT that will give you full certifications in a specific field
Personally, I would also heavily dissuade anyone from trying to get into game development. It's an extremely competitive field, and as a result every game company on the planet uses that as leverage to churn and burn through developers like crazy. It's a very unhealthy profession to be in at the moment. If he were to take some kind of course revolving around DevOps though (straddling the development and infrastructure worlds) he'd be able to make bank pretty quickly if he's talented
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I’m glad you responded here. I had come in to do a follow up response but you definitely seem to know more about the gaming development job market than me.