A way into professional coding?

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andy_mc

To all you "professionals" that read this. Do you use visual studio? And if a person applied for a programming job, who had experience in visual C++ express edition, using blitz3DSDK as his 3D engine, and showed you some good quality demos/games, would that be good enough?

I'm basically wanting to focus the next two years of my life on getting a professional games development job and want to know if this is the best way to acheive this.