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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 2266456" data-attributes="member: 360">If you're looking to a science or engineering major in college, and your school offers a course that leads to the AP computer science exam, and the person teaching it is even marginally competent, it's probably worth taking, if only because getting college credit for high school courses is a Good Thing. Other than that, there's just way too much variation to offer useful advice.Talk to some people who actually do this before you set your heart on it. By all reliable reports, programming in the video game industry is a very demanding job, where large amounts of overtime are expected (and it's debatable whether the pay is good enough to compensate for this).I'm a Windows/.NET guy, and mostly a web guy; probably the best free way to get started with that toolset is grabbing a free download of beta 2 of Visual Web Developer Express at <a href="http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/" target="_blank">http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/</a> , which is more than enough to get you started with building web applications in Visual Basic.NET and/or C#.Hmm...SQL is a database programming language, PHP is a web programming language, Java (and Visual Basic and C#) is a general-purpose programming language. C and C++ are (mostly) systems programming languages. ASP.NET is Microsoft's web development framework; you can use many different programming languages with it (though Visual Basic and C# are by far the most popular). Going beyond that level of detail requires more background than a post on a web forum can give, so here's a list of things to read, though a lot of this may be over the head of someone who's just getting started ...<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html" target="_blank">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html</a></blockquote>

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