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Hi! This is the author. I was pretty sure that someone would point this out and I completely agree. But, even Programming has to be taught. Among the many ways
by arocks 13y ago
Hi! This is the author. I was pretty sure that someone would point this out and I completely agree.
But, even Programming has to be taught. Among the many ways to learn programming, I think the best approach is to demonstrate how a good progammer programs and explain the thought process.
- benregn 13y agoI agree with you on that. I didn't mean to say that the idea or the video wasn't good.
- Widdershin 13y agoWhen you say programming has to be taught, do you include being self taught?
- jawr 13y agoDefinitely agree with this. I learnt to program with a lot of trial and error.. no screencasts or online workshops. Also - I haven't actually watched the screencast, but looking at the text the virtualenv setup seems very wrong.
- Widdershin 13y agoEmbarrassingly enough, I learnt to program in Game Maker when I was pretty young. I still remember the day when it clicked what variables were :P
- qu4z-2 13y agoDon't be embarrassed. You've got to start somewhere.
- krapp 13y agoGame Maker is fun, I still play around with it now and then.
- Widdershin 13y agoI still consider Game Maker to have the best standard library for actually making 2D games of any engine I've encountered.
- krapp 13y agoIt is really quite good at what it does, and it's an easy way of building quick and dirty .exes too. I do wish knowing GML was good for something somewhere else though. Or that it used another language like Python for its scripting.
- Widdershin 13y agoNothing would make me happier than being able to use Python with Game Maker's functionality.
- gamesbrainiac 13y agoI gotta say, this looks like it was copied from tutsplus. But hey, if it helps people, who cares. I don't.
- rakeshmenon 13y agoyeah is copied from tutsplus :-/ the only difference being its distributed for free
- schlecht 13y agoRubs me the wrong way where people don't give the necessary credit.
- arocks 13y agoI would like to clarify that I was working on this, on and off, since last year (yes, it takes quite a bit of effort to create video tutorials). I read the tutsplus course page and it seems it is a course for teaching Django to beginners. It seems our approaches are different too.
- superchan 13y agoAnyone have a reference to the Tutsplus tutorial? Curious to see how that differs from this one.