Developing a New Major

Image via WikipediaMark Danks – sr mgr, developer support, Sony mark_danks@playstation.sony.edu (???)

brand new program – application @psp-edu.scedeve.net

colleges, education focused, not R&D, for classroom use, not for arts and designers – it’s for CS and engineers, hardware focus, not about the game play – its to train engineers assembler coers, for the PSP and PS2

C# and Java going away in games

PS programmers need to be able to explain a pointer, memory caches, bus contention, how compiler works, software rasterizers, lock free queues

skills they look for in their new hire tool builders and software enginners – do they understand how hardware works, need to know assembler – ratchett & klank writen in assembler, do they know about registrs and how they work

if you’re in the program you get advice for faculty, collaboration – sony folks come in to talk about ps design

ps has people in developer support who travel and lot and can schedule a talk at school – they’ve all shipped a lot of games they give advice and do a little lecture

they sive out dev kits pretty cheap in the program – have to be kept in a secure room, Sony gets 1st right of refusal on anything that could be cmmercial

there’s a full training program for hte PS2 for professional developers, there are forums, annd more materials will show up there

not sure if the edu program applies to us at this point – probably more to the cs guys – i’ll point it towards them

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