Casting the Net

Although i've had very little to publish this week i have simply been accumulating resources and keeping up to date on other things, as well as doing some 'real world' things.

Anyway, the most notable thing i've been doing this week is looking into is programming and with some open learning areas such as w3schools and the CS50 scheme, it's a great opportunity for some free knowledge, i wish i'd taken advantage of things like this more at university. Even though i really want to focus on a few skills and develop them, getting a job and having a job are 2 entirely different kettles of fish.
In order to get a job so i'm able to develop my art i feel i need to throw a larger net, even if it means catching a smaller or less focussed on my preferences job, after that i can start to work towards my goals.

As such i've begun programming in my spare time as a bit of a backup skill.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/19927246/

Week0's work for CS50 is to make a game using 'scratch' a program similar to blockly, very simple to use and just gets the understanding of the programming world into 'n00bs', anyway, i think i have (slightly) more knowledge than the average lamen, so this wasn't too hard, though did take a while to fix up nicely, and with the manic autosave, every development mistake meant minutes of time sifting through my work to find the error. If nothing else it has got me a little more experienced as a QA (which is work i wouldn't sneeze at)
Week1 starts me learning C

Another thing i'm starting to look through is tutorials, me just rattling off slightly higher quality works of the same knowledge isn't getting me anywhere quickly, and this is something i really want to get into soon, so i'm going to take some time to spread my talents into several areas working through 'cgi.tuts' tutorials, this encompasses mad ranges of programs, even using some more outdated softwares that have been replaced. Unlike usual where i will use 3ds max as a replacement for Maya, i think i will try to use the programs recommended and show versatility as well as perhaps learning some more unique functions to each program. Anyway, it is a long path to follow and i hope i can learn some interesting things to add to my portfolio and widen my scope for a job.

(PC still being built, maybe a week or 2 until completion- hopefully that will be the catalyst i need for a serious boost to work)