Brave New "Hello, World"

I arrived at the Jug and Jester about 10 minutes late (thanks, reliable bus service), whereupon the handing out of free beer tokens commenced and hence the drinking of free beer. After fetching my free beer — you have to get your priorities right — I got talking to a variety of people, including some animation students from Birmingham University, the organiser and some guys from Airplay, who are behind several published games and even received a BAFTA nomination for their first mobile game! Surprisingly, though, out of around 20 – 30 people, there weren’t any other student programmers there. Are we really that rare?
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