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Everybody's Saturated With The Marketing Hype Of Next-generation Consoles. They Are Wonderful, But The Truth Is That They Are As Powerful As A High End Pc Is Right Now.

You Can Prematurely Optimize Maintainability, Flexibility, Security, And Robustness Just Like You Can Performance.

In The Information Age, The Barriers [to Entry Into Programming] Just Aren't There. The Barriers Are Self Imposed. If You Want To Set Off And Go Develop Some Grand New Thing, You Don't Need Millions Of Dollars Of Capitalization. You Need Enough Pizza And Diet Coke To Stick In Your Refrigerator, A Cheap Pc To Work On, And The Dedication To Go Through With It. We Slept On Floors. We Waded Across Rivers.

The Xbox 360 Is The First Console That I've Ever Worked With That Actually Has Development Tools That Are Better For Games Than What We've Had On Pc.

The Situation Is So Much Better For Programmers Today - A Cheap Used Pc, A Linux Cd, And An Internet Account, And You Have All The Tools Necessary To Work Your Way To Any Level Of Programming Skill You Want To Shoot For.