Programming Market Demand 20111

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General

• Kijiji

News Articles

"A snapshot of the current job market shows openings for computer software programmers and systems engineers leading the pack..." Wallace Immen, The Globe and Mail January 1 2011. Full Article

Statistics

TIOBE Inc. keeps track of the monthly demand for professional programmers by programming language

• TIOBE Index

Digital Games Toronto

• Games Industry Biz

Ubisoft

Ubisoft will bring 800 game related jobs to Ontario over the next ten years - Splinter Cell 6

• Premier McGuinty announces tax credit - $263M tax credits - June 2009

• 40 positions filled - Ubisoft $500M - May 25 2010

• Focusing on building 5 triple-A projects - August 9 2010

• 83 positions filled - November 26 2010

• 8 jobs currently advertised - January 2011

Bedlam Games

• currently hiring - January 2011

TransGaming

• TransGaming Launches the $50,000 GameTree TV Developer Competition (Announced: Jan 19, 2011)
• 4 game developer-related jobs currently advertised - January 2011

Ontario Video Game Developers

• List of Development Companies

Testimonials

"I maintain that Seneca is the best school in Canada for software developers, and I'm proud of being a BSD graduate." Andrew Smith December 2010

"I'm not sure why I'm writing this; I don't really have any questions or need any feedback. I guess I'm just overwhelmed by what I just experienced. I have played a game called Stepmania for over 6 years, which is open source. In an interest to put my own features into the game, I just opened up the source code for the first time. Suddenly, everything we've learned in DPS901, all the systems courses for BTS, everything... it all makes sense now. I used to think programming was easy, and that in my current state, I probably could do 80-90% of what a professional could. 800 files, each with hundreds to thousands of lines of COMPLEX code that make BTP300 look like a joke. Upon seeing what a finished, professional product is like... suddenly the task of being a REAL programmer has taken shape. It's not as easy as I thought. I guess I'm kind of glad; easy was getting boring. :)" Graeme Smyth October 2010