NEED OPINIONS ON MY CODING (TEXT BASED RPG IN PYTHON)

Ive had a brief look and there are a couple of things that pop right out:

-> Is there any reason your class definitions aren't in separate .py files?
-> I see a lot of magic numbers,
-> I would look into parsing text files instead of including all text elements (dialogue etc.) within the Python code.

I'll try and get in a more in-depth look after work!

To my knowledge, they should be in different files just so that it's not one huge .py file like you got right there. It makes it way easier to do separation of concerns I think it's called. So, I mean, it's OK to have it all in one file but that's one huge ass file and for a bigger game it's gonna be one MEGA file so it'd be logical and good programming practice to split it up.

I'm in my final year of programming, and sadly I don't really know how to do it that well, or maybe I'm just being modest. But really though, I knew nothing before joining, and I turned out kinda fine I think.

You can always practice programming while you study.

Oh! You live in Auckland. Even better. I can be more specific. I'm 4th year studying Software Engineering at Uni. That's BE(Hons). It's pretty legit and cool, but you can always do a BSc majoring in Computer Science and it'd be just as good. My friend did a BSc and he's better than me at programming (I think).

I didn't even know how to do any programming before starting. You're way ahead of me on that front.

author=ten_blue_egyptians
Awesome, makes perfect sense. This might be another dumb question (considering the site) but is there anyone here who does programming for a living? It's something I've been considering for a while and I'm not sure whether to do tertiary study immediately or maybe learn as much as I can on my own before thinking about studying full/semi full time. Would like words of wise-dom.

Ooh, pick me! I work full-time as a programmer now, and previously I did contract work and part-time work during and after college.

Yellow Magic is right, experience is definitely more important than official credentials when looking for a job. If you don't have experience at a full-time job, it's good to get some part-time or contract work experience if possible, or to have a portfolio of completed projects - to show your ability to fully complete projects, your level of skill and knowledge, and your enthusiasm. A lot of the people I work with don't have degrees or don't have relevant degrees, anyway (like me!). All you need is some way of proving you know your stuff, like a good portfolio.

If you can afford school, that's great, but don't consider it a requirement. Some classes focus a lot on theory, which is helpful, but hands-on experience writing programs that accomplish a task, and experience with things like "working within a deadline" and "cooperating with a team of designers, artists, producers, etc." is probably more relevant.

So to answer your question - yea! Start practicing now on your own time, either writing from scratch, or scripting or modding things (VX Ace, etc.), or whatever! If you really like it, dive in further, and then decide about school. Other than that, I guess my only specific advice is: there's a lot of people looking for good web developers in particular, I think? So maybe learn some of that too. HTML, CSS, JS, PHP; never bad stuff to practice.

author=ten_blue_egyptians
Edit: @slash or anyone else, what would you consider a solid portfolio to consist of?

Code.

I'm actually serious: Haven't seen or heard many examples of BAD programmer portfolios...although I'm guessing you should try to adhere to coding standards (such as PEP 8) as much as you can. Also important is understanding what might be the best data structures or design patterns to use in specific scenarios...however, unless you're doing something silly like bubble-sort or using a linked list to store 100000000 entries with frequent look-up, that kind of thing is usually not 100% objective. Sometimes you just gotta follow your heart...