Time Zones and Experience

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/10 23:55

Just as a general point of interest I was wondering what other time zones the majority of people entering this year are in, for example for me the competition will start and end at a leisurely 10AM on Sunday morning.

I was also curious as to what kind of skill level and experience everyone here has, weather they are high school students, uni students, professional game developers with a little free time, or maybe even a plumber with a hobby in programming.

I myself am just finishing my final year at high school and have always enjoyed entering programming comps and fiddling around making games and other odds and ends but nothing really professional with no lessons in game design or anything, just too much time spent playing, is this similar to the majority of other entrants out there?

Finally, good luck, let pyweek begin

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saluk on 2011/09/11 00:03:

5pm for me here in PST. Means I have to wait all day for it to start, and then get not that much time to make a go of day 1. On the last day, it feels like I have a lot of time to finish it off, but 5pm hits very quick :)

hidas on 2011/09/11 00:04:

8:00 on a Saturday night. I'm still in high school, so I'm definitely not that experienced.

richard on 2011/09/11 00:06:

10AM in Melbourne. Time to go out and do some Sunday things, including some Cthulu/Werewolf cross-over roleplaying, and a bit of shopping :-)

cyhawk on 2011/09/11 00:28:

1am here in Dublin. I'm a site reliability engineer with game developer ambitions since high school — maybe this week I'll finally write my masterpiece! :)

ehsanul on 2011/09/11 00:56:

Time zone is EST - so starting the competition around 8pm.

I've only done a little python before, but I love Ruby and JavaScript/CoffeeScript (so Python ought to be good too). Self-taught programmer myself. I have a single hobby game project which I've been working on for months, but it's still not done - so I'm not very experienced. I've been using python/pygame to teach my girlfriend some programming, so that's that.