In my first year of college, I bagged my first programming job using the Linden Scripting Language. I spent the majority of that Summer working "in-world" as pa

In my first year of college, I bagged my first programming job using the Linden Scripting Language. I spent the majority of that Summer working "in-world" as part of Trinity College Dublin's CRITE project. There was some real prospects in this area in terms of educational value for children but unfortunately the questionable nature of most of SecondLife clienteles activities makes it impossible to allow Children to just wander around. I spent a lot of time working with OpenSim, the open source version, which was very very buggy when I used it but it allowed you to run the server, and I had some experiences bringing it into schools. Unfortunately due to problems such as "Wow my man just lost all his clothes", we could not go through with it. I found it a wonderful environment for learning, particularly for coding. Its a very hands on approach when you can set up a listener like listener = llListen(1000) and then set up basic events for when a certain thing was said. It had a lovely feel to the programming and I made my first real money on it as well. I made a set of playable bagpipes for some person online, he sent me $50 dollars on Paypal. I also donated a lot of code free of charge and even had my name included on someones PHD. All in all, it was wonderful place to work when I was there.