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Diary of a wimpy tester: from kids to kidpreneurs Is this the right track?
Small talk
Just 4 questions as in “are we on the same page?”
Brief Part 1: The Beginning
Brief Part 1: The Beginning Part 2: A Bit Of Knowledge
Brief Part 1: The Beginning Part 2: A Bit Of Knowledge Part 3: Looking For A Job
Brief Part 1: The Beginning Part 2: A Bit Of Knowledge Part 3: Looking For A Job Part 4: Some Did It BIG TIME
PART 1 The beginning
2012
First breakthrough - access to my parents laptops
2014
Got my first gaming desktop!
2016 Comic Con Testing opportunities: Game: Producer: Comic Con Black the Fall Adventure Game from Sand Sailor Studios Comic Con I shall remain RPG from Scorpius Studios Comic Con PositronX First Person Rogue-lite Shooter by Scorpius Studios
2017 Comic Con / Dev Play Testing opportunities: Game: Producer: Comic Con Grey Dawn first person horror game from Interactive Stone Dev Play Gibbous A C'Thulu Adventure Adventure Game from Stuck In Attic Dev Play Gorescript FPS game from Amused Sloth
Diary of a wimpy tester - 2017
Diary of a wimpy tester - 2017
Diary of a wimpy tester - 2017
PART 2 A bit of knowledge
2015 - 2016
Talk the talk walk the walk:
algorithms; logical schemes the increment / decrement instruction; instruction
for
linear structure; the alternative structure; operators read / write operations with characters
maximum, divisibility, parity, radical frequency vectors
repeating structure WHILE-DO the sieve of Eratosthenes; sorting by selection
introduction to C; Read / Write / Attribution Merge; sort; simple data types
introduction to C; if / while rapid exponentiation; monotone sequence; brackets
decomposition into primitive factors; Euclid's constant; the switch statement; palindrome
algorithm; variable interchange numbers / overrun danger
sequences the majority item; finding rules in the composition of
sequences2016 - 2017 Talk the talk, walk the walk: numbering bases; base 2 numbering bases - continuation; bases larger than two matrix steering vectors; matrix dyeing; simulation multiplicity of a number in n! (Legendre's formula) memoization time measurement; space measurement and lowering of used space and time Game programming: Presentation of games
2017 - 2018
Talk the talk, walk the walk:
introduction to recursivity introduction to dynamic programming
flood fill; lists union-find algorithm
amortized analysis Lee's algorithm (BFS on matrix)
tail type; the maximum in a sliding window bit operations; Gray code
syntactic analysis (parsing); recursive analyzer compression: Huffman trees
with procedures
pre-calculating compression: RLE; measurement of execution
time
the maximum number of non-intersecting Flood Wars material and positional score
intervalsSharing Year Conference Comments 2017 Romanian Testing Conference - Cluj, Romania Keynote speaker 2017 Belgian Testing Days - Brussels, Belgium Speaker 2018 UKSTAR – London, UK Speaker, best rated session 2018 Romanian Testing Conference – Cluj Romania Career path orientation workshop 2018 Test Dive – Krakow, Poland Speaker, experience sharing
PART 3 Looking for a job
Solutions?
Do you think it is simple to make a buck before 18? If you reached 16
you may work provided your parents do agree in writing…
What about me, I just turned 14 this month…Solutions – bad approaches 1. When we register we often do lie about age and we are not that comfortable to ask for help afterwards 2. We often do have our debit cards (scholarships, presents, allowance, etc) so why not put them to work? 3. We often do have access to our parents’ card details from previous purchases 4. We’d like to get a job but, often, we do not see the scam where there’s obviously one
Keep an open mind Design and Sell T-Shirts Online – no wonder one lands on www.spreadshirt.com pretty quick Selling Candy at School, or other stuff – but, sadly, you need to be 18 to join Amazon or eBay Freelance Writing – for other people, kids or not… - reports of 5 – 20 pages should not go for free… Paid Surveys Online – get info here https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GKZF2QQ/?tag=hubpages-vig- 20 Tuition to Children – or tutorials for older people, mainly on computer usage, like Skype… Sell on eBay – on your parents account – there are quite a number of books on the subject, like How to Turn Garbage into Gold: 101 Kid's Books You Can Find at Thrift Stores and Garage Sales to Sell on Ebay and Amazon by Jeremiah Byron – truth be told it is an audio book…
Keep an open mind Strange enough, online testing, my favorite, is not an option in any of the sites I checked… Design and Sell T-Shirts Online – no wonder one lands on www.spreadshirt.com pretty quick Selling Candy at School, or other stuff – but, sadly, you need to be 18 to join Amazon or eBay Freelance Writing – for other people, kids or not… - reports of 5 – 20 pages should not go for free… Paid Surveys Online – get info here https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GKZF2QQ/?tag=hubpages-vig- 20 Tuition to Children – or tutorials for older people, mainly on computer usage, like Skype… Sell on eBay – on your parents account – there are quite a number of books on the subject, like How to Turn Garbage into Gold: 101 Kid's Books You Can Find at Thrift Stores and Garage Sales to Sell on Ebay and Amazon by Jeremiah Byron – truth be told it is an audio book…
Going for a job
Nice finding! $27 monthly membership for some truly nice claims: 1. You can get paid to Play New and Upcoming Games. 2. You can get paid to take online surveys and make from $5 to $75 each, or more. 3. You can get paid to participate in focus groups and make up to $150 an hour. 4. You can get paid to try new Games, Gaming Consoles, Controllers or other products and keep the free products too! 5. You can get paid to preview new movie or game trailers for $4 to $25 an hour.
Scam hints
Signs: http://www.gameindustrycareerguide.com/how-can-i-tell-if-a-video-game-jobs-
website-is-a-scam/
Too good to be true after all testing is not the best paying job in the Universe, or in IT for that
matter…
You should never pay to test companies don’t bother hiding them behind a paywall, there’s no reason
Check the disclaimers “There is no guarantee that you will earn any money using the techniques and
ideas in this material.”
Check for grammar “an “You can make your living sitting on your coach and enjoying the gaming
spalling mestakes” process.”
(Try to) get in touch it’s not really worth their time to reply to people individually. They know that if
you don’t fall for it because you’re skeptical, no big deal. There are still plenty of
others who willPART 4 Some did it big time
Look for role models - kidpreneurs KIDPRENEUR AGE BUSINESS CAMERON JOHNSON 11 CHEERS & TEARS youngest American in a Tokyo-based company’s board MERCER HENDERSON 13 AUDIOTS soundmojis app BELLA TIPPING 13 KIDZCATIONZ travel review website aimed at kids ASHLEY QUALLS 14 WHATEVERLIFE web graphics & layouts for MySpace SHUBHAM BANERJEE 14 BRAIGO LABS low-cost Braille printers /app ROBERT NAY 14 NAY GAMES most downloaded free game from Apple, surpassing "Angry Birds" NICK D’ALOISIO 15 SUMMLY app that creates summaries of news articles optimized for iPhone BEN PASTERNACK 17 FLOGG virtual marketplace for teens ERIK FINMAN 17 BOTANGLE fee-based online video tutoring service MIHIR GARIMELLA 17 FIREFLY low-cost drone for first-responders GEORGE MATUS 18 TEAL unmanned aerial vehicle on batteries
Look for role models - kidpreneurs KIDPRENEUR AGE BUSINESS VALUE CAMERON JOHNSON 11 CHEERS & TEARS $4.5 mil earned yearly from 15yo MERCER HENDERSON 13 AUDIOTS BELLA TIPPING 13 KIDZCATIONZ ASHLEY QUALLS 14 WHATEVERLIFE $1.5 mil turned down in 2006 SHUBHAM BANERJEE 14 BRAIGO LABS ROBERT NAY 14 NAY GAMES Bubble Ball, 1+ mil downloads in the first 2 weeks NICK D’ALOISIO 15 SUMMLY Yahoo bought it for $30 mil BEN PASTERNACK 17 FLOGG ERIK FINMAN 17 BOTANGLE MIHIR GARIMELLA 17 FIREFLY GEORGE MATUS 18 TEAL $2.8 mil in seed funding
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Did you get my drift?...
Diary of a wimpy tester: from kids to kidpreneurs Is this the right track?
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