I edited it, so umm read it again I guess.

I don't know, man. But it sure beats living by the bills.

The McDonalds near my home has an opening, so I can always try there.

Realistically: Computer repair? Electrical Engineering? Marketing? There are a few.

Well thanks a lot!

Nope, I did not. Cool stuff!

I'll be frank, I do know what OOP is, and what procedural programming is, and I chose Java because I was an idiot when I started and wanted to build an android app, and soon I realized I need way more expertise to make a good one.

But yeah thanks for the resource. Very useful read. And yes, self-learning does lead to holes in underlying principles (I'll be taking a MOOC on that soon, from ocw.mit)

The IITs are the best tech colleges in India, and all the major companies around the world hire from it, it's really hard to get into. India has a large population, and thus IITs are highly in demand, in fact I would say it's as hard to get into IITs for an Indian, as it is to an American getting into Ivy, maybe even harder.

I would really like to work anywhere as long as it's a good salary and is away from my hometown, If you have an Indian colleague, ask them about the IITs.

And have you seen Three Idiots? Bollywood movie about college education, see it with subtitles. A very good movie if you fast forward through the songs, though the songs are wacky and you might like it.

Well, so you are saying that in USA, Indians are racist? That's a first. (to me)

I am Indian so probably the IITs, which you probably might have heard of.

My goal is not to write a game in C, but I wrote one in C as a project for a MOOC. I just wrote it so that people can see that's my skill level and not ask me technical questions like one of the other people did. (I did that MOOC since the teacher is supposed to pretty good)

I have used waaay too many resources. I preferred using project oriented courses like codechef, CS50 or video based courses which were highly esteemed such as Purcell's, not to mention a few books like "Java for dummies", "Head first Java", "Java A Complete References : Herbert Schildt".

I would attribute my actual learning to codechef, since I was solving stuff which gve me plenty of practice.

I would say John Purcell's course on Udemy (free), along with Head First Java (free in a very illegal way). Also working along www.codechef.com exercises to help myself practice.

I guess you are feeling pretty smug about testing me but I just made the game of fifteen so it's barely anything in my coding expertise.

This can help - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1857244/what-are-the-differences-between-np-np-complete-and-np-hard

Yeah maybe what you say is true. I am only going by stack surveys, and my talks with other IT professionals.

But here's the point - if not IT, what else? That's what I ask myself. IT was good enough as a hobby before and now it seems like something in which I can work on, and feel like I am making a progress.

So I just feel like doing my best with what I can. Anyway I am looking forward to do physics/math for college entrance exams, so it's not like I don't have a choice. And yeah paper matters, and I will get a paper, but experience and code can also help.

Edit: Wait. Indians are racist?

My current skills can barely help me get me an income but if I work some more, I can easily earn around 80k USD. So it feels pretty nice! The best part is that everything I need is available online for free, and I am learning skills (logical thinking process) that can be applied anywhere.

P.S. I am 16, so it's not like I am doing anything else. Not that age matters.

Will these help me if I want to use Godot?