![]() ![]() ![]() Lastly, I've done all the tutorials here and try to pick up more along with lynda and virtual academy, but I feel like I can't retain anything because I don't apply it. My introduction to programming course had a complete refund due to the professor being too incompetent (seriously) which led to me going under 12 credit hours, which led to me losing the GI Bill for that semester, which led to me owing thousands of dollars to the school. Then I tried the college route, but only had enough money to do a crappy community college and it was fairly clear that most people teaching there had no idea how to teach or no idea how to code. I've tried to learn through several books, but they all had a total lack of contextualization and were often full of glaring errors. Pick something simple (again, really simple, like Pong) and see if you can make it work. You learn a lot more from action than anything else. So if you want to learn, the best way is to just do it. Once you understand the logic, it's just about understanding how your engine/framework API works and reading documentation (and hoping it's correct). ![]() This teaches the basics of writing a script, having a main loop, input controls, simple AI, manipulating graphics, text UI, states if you want a title screen or whatever. What I typically do is read a book or two on the subject, then give myself a small little project like making Pong (which I have done on loads of different platforms and languages). Nowadays the language syntax is not really the issue, I understand most of the basic concepts and they are the same for pretty much any language. I guess I taught myself programming, but I've read a ton of books over the years in all sorts of languages. ![]()
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