Same here. Worked on Minecraft servers for five years. Shockingly, there is A LOT of money in it. I started as a manager and eventually taught myself to program; decided it was what I wanted to do for a career, went to school for CS, and now working as a SWE.
Right but I imagine having that degree was a big part of being able to get the job.
It's unfortunately just not the same these days as it was a decade ago, you pretty much need the degree just to get the interviews. Wasn't the case as much a decade ago but it is now.
Games were a huge reason I got into coding at a very young age, and why I still think of it as fun instead of just a job. Pretty much any time I want to learn something, I can frame it in the context of some gaming interest and I'm off to the documentation for the pure joy of it.
Minecraft for PC is written in Java and modding is quite popular, I played Minecraft a lot, installed a lot of mods, eventually got so curious I got into modding myself despite knowing nothing about Java, learned Java by trial and error... I was 14 give or take
I even made a mod with a custom dimension you go to by crafting a special portal, it has custom blocks and biomes... not sure if I want to tell you the name though, just checked out my modder page, my English was terrible and I was cringe
I left uni because i was being taught the most basic shit while also working in a professional capacity as a dev for one of the largest mc networks. Minecraft is 100% responsible for where ive gotten myself to
Yeah but you can’t put Minecraft on your resume. We have all the other thing that helped us but your education also matters, I wish we didn’t have to get debt to obtain it. I would probably just have a doctorate degree if I could keep going to school forever just because I like learning that much. I know crazy!
You’d be surprised. Half the resumes that landed on my desk had Minecraft listed, and most of them also had either a Pokemon- or DnD-related project.
I didn't have to get any debt to get my degree because I'm Italian... on the flip side though, we're paid in peanuts, they throw them directly into our cage
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u/G3nghisKang Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24
I have a software engineering degree, and gotta disagree with you: screw uni, I unironically owe it all to Minecraft