Looking for a job

#1 Must it be 2D?

#2 Yeah, Maybe I'll add some 3D effects but not more then that.

#3 Anyone? My family is poor so I need that money really bad.

#4 Michael no ones hiring a 12 year old as a programmer. if you need the money that bad(which i find hard to believe if youre a programmer) then you should look into getting a real job. by the time i was your age, i had already worked as a paper boy, dog washer, and every winter i shoveled sidewalks for cash. cash isnt going to fall into your lap just because you can program. there are many people more experienced and older than you willing to work for free.

#5 I live in Israel, here nobody gives a job to someone young, it's really hard to get a job here because the all the jobs are already taken (Even the cleaning service).

#6 It would be best to put up some demos of your games and a reasonable price range your looking to get... I wouldn't expect a lot of responses for a couple reasons, age (you are pretty young), as well as Visual Basic. You'd probably have better luck picking up T2D, learning it and trying to put some games out for sell :)

#7 I uploaded the games I made half year ago here and I'm going to work even for 1$ an hour.

#8 Israel huh? I guess you can't shovel snow... For one dollar in hour how long are you hoping to work a week?

-Peter

#9 @Michael, do you have a copy of T2D? if you do, then i will give you a copy of t2d.net to play around with. it lets you program t2d in c#, which I find better than torquescript.

#10 Peter Robinson - I will work as long as the guy that will hire me tells me to.

Jason Swearingen - What's T2D? A programming language?

#11 T2D

#12 I don't have that much money. :(

#13 Thus the problem repeats itself...

Copy Bill Gates: Program something a Grocery store would want(like something that keeps track of stock, what the employees get paid, the employees etc..) and sell it to them

#14 What do you mean? Grocery stores don't need any software.. And even if they do they don't have a computer in the store, it's not USA.

#15 Thats an example, use imagination. Programming skill of your level will get you no where fast. Do what everyone else does and find work, then goto school then do what you love(programming or not).

#16 Or you can program something for a specific community -- say, Garage Games -- using tools available for free (like the Express editions of MS's languages, or GCC).

Find something the community lacks and make something to fill in the hole. Give it out for free, and accept donations from PayPal or the like. Most communites are good at giving donations for work that's helped them in whatever task they've embarked on; Garage Games is no different.

If you want an example of a successful freeware project that's generated a significant amount of profit, all you have to do is look around: phpMyAdmin, mySQL, the BSD projects, or Linux, for example.

On a smaller scale, the only example I can think of off the top of my head is my TorqueDev project. I put a good three months work into it thus far, off and on, and I've received generous donations from quite a few people. It's generated enough money for me to be able to afford the engines, for example, if I had not already purchased them.

All you have to do is find that niche, use your talent, and fill it.

It builds character, a name for you in the community, and your resume, all the while generating experience and learning lessons that you'll not learn taking a computer science class.

Either way, good luck. I started programming when I was 11, and I know the hardships.

My best wishes for your success.

#17 If you are poor then how can you afford internet and a computer?
Im not trtying to be rude or anything, just wondering?

#18 Umm have you heard of a public library?(Dont know much about Israel so I dont know if they have one, but if they do and it has computers...)

#19 Seriously tho... if I wanted a free computer all I need to do is look behind the dumpster down the street. I could pick up 3-4 of em at night, bring them home, scavange parts and put together something usable. And internet is in the air... (a few neighbours has wi-fi but not the skills to secure em) problem fixed.

So if you know of any unguarded dumpsters where stores throw away electric appliances... Depending on the legality of course, don't want to get you into any trouble :)

#20 Robert - In the school in israel there are no programming lessons (Well there are in the univercity), I love programing and I don't want to work anything besides programming.

Sam Bacsa - I was warking on a project called Error Maker Plus (Which is made so people will make will make they're own error and blue screens and screenshot then) but I deleted it because nobody wanted that, if someone still wants it please tell me.

Bejong Yang - This computer has been used 2 times befaure me.

Ben - There are no computers in the libary's here, well exept for the one in the univercity but it's 100 miles away.

Anders Jacobsen - People in Israel don't trow the computers unless they don't work.