#learning programming

[bleedingpearlsapphire]

Yesterday I continued my HTML journey on FreeCodeCamp. I learned a few new things.

I also started working on a test website to continue learning Git. After my first two "official" commits (that did not just include testing with txt files), I had an amazing person tell me about conventional commits. So I learned how to rewrite history (even though I don't fully get it yet). After deleting one of the commits but also managing to get the commit back, I can say: Yay, still proud of myself for continuing to learn. (I am aware it's not good practice to rewrite history but I figured, I now somewhat know how to do it at least and I have conventional commits for the first "mini" commits. I even learned how to change the initial commit message.)

Next steps: Understand branching and merging more so I can create the development branch. And continue the HTML part of the course.

[lat-ino]

Gonna do some bicep curls for fun while I chug an energy drink and eat a slice of pizza with mayo.

[viorelleonardboboc]

Data types aren't interchangeable.

​❌ "Age: " + 21 → TypeError

✅ "Age: " + str(21) → "Age: 21"

​Don't let the compiler guess. Cast explicitly to prevent runtime crashes.

​Respect the types. Ensure stability.

[knowinglywhimsicalprophet]

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[lat-ino]

omg love lurning yippie... I need to do drugs again I think

[askagamedev]

So, what're the best tools, resources, etc. for both learning to code and for making games? I imagine you might get asked this a lot, but I don't really have an answer yet.

Not everyone is the same, and everyone is different when it comes to their familiarity with how to do things.

Here's AAGD’s quick and easy algorithm to decide what you should use to build your game idea if you’re just starting out:

Do I know how to program? Do words like "object oriented” and “virtual function” have specific meaning to me? Unity, Unreal

Do I have some coding knowledge already? - Dragon Age Toolset, Skyrim Creation Kit, Source SDK

Am I starting on game development with no background whatsoever? Gamemaker, RPG Maker, Construct

I want to make an MMO! Stop. Make something simpler.

If you want to learn to code, it depends a lot on how self-driven you are. If you have trouble motivating yourself to do things, a local community college course for introduction to programming is probably your best bet. For those who are able to self-motivate and have little to no programming background, I suggest starting with C# and learning to use Unity alongside it. Microsoft has a great [C# learning resource] that has lessons and will walk learners through getting started and what the language is, and it uses Unity in its examples. If you want to learn C++, which is the language du jour of most game development (even Unity is really C++ under the hood), then I suggest working your way through the lessons at [LearnCPP].

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[lat-ino]

My JavaScript learning projects. Animation in code isn't as fun as I had imagined it in my head. I wanna make a pixel-animation-maker-app-thing.