programming jobs without degree

[Feoggou]

Gaming is a huge field, what do you want to work on? Graphics, AI, networking...? Different parts of the game have different engineers who have very different skill sets.

And I disagree about the part of knowing exactly how linked lists and vectors and trees work not being necessary. How will you correctly choose your container for you case if you don't know exactly how they work. There are also cases where you may want to write your own variant of one of those. I have written my own implementations of string, vectors, lists, and trees for various reasons.

sincerely, I don't know. I'd love to know to program graphics, though I love AI more. I'm not interested with network programming, but if necessary, I will learn. And, besides graphics, audio, AI and networking, I don't know what other fields exist. Anyway, if it is to work as a game programmer, the least memory usage and the highest speed are the top priorities. And I think it fits in all fields of game programming. Now I don't pretty know how I can learn to do that... I mean, I can think myself of optimizing, but there's a long road until I find all things that can be optimized and how.