Worried About My Future in Programming

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fishcakedev
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First of all, let me introduce myself, since I just joined this forum a couple of hours ago. I'm a student studying in LUCT (Limkokwing), taking Bsc (Hons) in Games Technology. Currently in Semester 2. Hopefully, this forum welcomes students, since I've checked a lot of posts in this forum, and most of the users here are already working in the game industry. Smile Big Obviously, I'm a game programmer, and I'm quite happy to know that most of the users here are game programmers. I'm also interested with games art (love drawing), but I totally suck at games design.

On to the topic.

I fell in love with programming and games development 3 years ago, when I was still in Form 4. Ever since that day, I've been learning programming by myself, relying on online resources and books. But the learning progress was really slow, and I often gave up due to lack of motivation and resources. But since I love games development, I decided to go for a formal education in games programming. And for some reason, I chose to go to Limkokwing.

After studying in Limkokwing for almost 2 years now, I noticed something that the game programming course that the university offers is very weak. The learning progress is slow, and quite repetitive. The previous lecturers totally failed at teaching the students to understand programming. Our current programming lecturer is great, but because most of my classmates don't have a clue on how to program, he had to downgrade the module syllabus. Basically, we're learning everything that we've learned last semester all over again. And this will eventually goes on from semester to semester. From what I see now, the progress of the course is slower than learning by myself. To tell you the truth, I haven't learned anything new about programming ever since I started my study here, and I don't even know much about progamming. "^_^

So, I'm really worried whether I will survive in the future after graduating, because I don't think my skill set will be enough to actually get a job in the industry. I don't think it's even possible to rely on self-thaught programming knowledge (maybe I'm wrong?). Plus, I'm really shy (extremely), I can barely talk to a stranger, and my social skill is probably the worst anyone could have, which is my weakness. What should I do? Go to a better university (the chance of this ever happening is very slim)? Or go hardcore on self-thought programming?

P.s. I just realized that my current programming lecturer is a moderator in this forum... O.o