I just spoke at GamesWest at UWS about starting a career as a professional games programmer. Here is my keynote slide deck, although it’s not very wordy:
Keynote 2013: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13683832/get%20into%20game%20programming.zip
If there’s interest I can do a recording of this presentation. Shout at me on twitter!
Andrew Fray 