Clearly I did not hold myself accountable for posting some game clips. Life came at me fast this past month with work, planning a move, and dealing with a health mystery. I am currently in the works on how i can make posting a more realistic and enjoyable thing for me - especially since i am mainly working on writing projects right now rather than coding. i am still practicing coding, just not making projects like i used to. i simply don’t have the same time i did a couple months ago.
with that said, i believe i’m going to transition into some writing posts once i figure out how i want to tackle it. i have a couple game narratives i am working on developing right now. i really prefer to build a whole working world, then the characters in it, and then the story line, which makes it a long process. but it’s one that i think makes for a more vibrant and immersive world. i also have an old project that started as a comic i am still working on. i definitely don’t have the time to draw it to its fullest potential, but we’ll see how i’ll tackle that too.
anyways…i missed you. getting back into the swing of things here will hopefully give me some routine. here’s a poll for you guys so i can take into account what you guys would like to see more of.
what method should i use!
post gameplay stuff and wait until you can work on coding projects
post gameplay stuff and writing projects
only post about one of your writing projects until you’re ready to program again
do whatever!
other (please comment)
Voting ended onApr 22, 2023
i am off to work now! i will be back tonight (maybe posting maybe just online). and i’ll be brainstorming how to add new content that isn’t in line with what i’ve been doing so far.
currently on my way to my hometown for the doctors appointment i mentioned. getting poked tomorrow and will hopefully have some results same day or by monday. once i’m back from the trip i will be back to posting normally for you guys. i’m sorry this week has been lacking, i had to prioritize my health for the week.
thank you all for all of your love. i know this may be a small achievement to some, but i am really glad to have a warm welcome back to tumblr. i used to run a different account a while ago on a whole different corner than tumblr that was unfortunately hacked and is gone forever.
it means the world to me that there are 100 times something i created was cool enough to throw a like. love y’all.
i do have some news. not great. i have a surprise visit back to my hometown to follow up on some liver and thyroid tests this week and will need to postpone my tutorials and coding posts for the week while i focus on my health. i will stay active as much as i can, but it will likely be different content than normal.
anyways! thanks again so so much. i hope you guys continue to follow me on this strange and exciting journey. love you guys. i’ll be back with more soon.
I’m a beginner w programming and I really need motivation :((( I feel kind of dumb because it takes me a while to understand basic concepts. What did you do when you felt like this? (when you were starting out )
Honestly, how I did it was I had a lot of people who were either depending on me to succeed with programming with my apprenticeship or wanted me to do well. I come from a fairly poor family and a lot of my family live back in Africa so I also have the privilege to be here to get free education. By constantly reminding myself (but not overdoing it) that I need to do well in the course, that kept me motivated.
Other things include the ability to create cool projects. I used to watch Frontend Web Development tutorials on YouTube way before I actually started coding and I wanted to make all those cool aesthetic websites! “One day I’ll make something like that but more amazing” and here I am learning programming to achieve that.
The other major motivation for me is I found learning about new languages or technologies fun. When I got the hang of HTML, I was super excited to learn CSS and then I learnt some Python and that was such a good feeling ticking the box of “Oh yeah I learnt that one, and built a couple projects”!
I think this is just a me thing, but I sign up to do courses that has a fancy certificate at the end solely because of two things: I learn the new language/technology and… I love seeing my name on a certificate! Sounds stupid but I really do! One day I’ll have a wall with all the certificates I’ve ever completed! THAT definitely motivates me!
When trying to stay motivated, you’ve also got to stop comparing yourself to others or feel like you have to know everything “right” way or go a certain path. Remember, everyone starts somewhere, everyone is different and programming is a lifelong learning process.
Find a project that you're passionate about or something that motivates you to learn programming. It could be a game, a website, or a tool that you need in your daily life.
Find the reason you wanted to learn programming. “Because I study it for university/school/online course/etc” does not count. WHY did you start the course? WHY did you pick programming and not knitting or law whatever? WHY do you think you’ll be good at programming? Find that inner passion for programming, write it on a sticky note and have it where you constantly be looking (study area) and keep reminding yourself
Example from me: I wanted to learn how to build websites about my interests (Hello Kitty, Anime, Lana Del Rey and music). Now I want to work towards create mini adventure games one day. Hope that one day I’ll get to work for The Sims/Electronic Arts in the Game Development team. I’m doing all of this to make my Dad proud and feel I was worth it after all the years of sacrifice he did to get me here where I am. I’m learning so I can live comfortably with my fiancé (husband in the future obvs) and spend money on buying him gifts and funding his little hobbies! (He’s super adorable) <- Write something like that
In terms of feeling dumb:
Accept that it’s normal to feel that way. No genius becomes a genius after 1 day of studying. Not even 1 month of studying. Programming is a freaking hard subject to handle. Accept that it’s normal to feel dumb sometimes. You’re not the only one.
Please don’t look at the whole picture when learning. By that I mean, yeah C# (for example) looks like a freaking hard language from the outside but when you start to break it down into topics like variables and data types etc and even break it further into subtopics, suddenly the language doesn’t look at scary! You just have to tackle the little guys and poof! You beat them all and now you know your target language/technology!
Don’t be too pride or too shy to ask for help. From teachers to the users in a programming discord server, ask for help please. Ask even the dumbest of questions “Does does HTML mean?” Do it. Learn from the answer. Keep it in your memory. Move on. Keep doing that throughout your learning!
Programming is a skill, and like any other skill, it requires practice. Try to write code on a regular basis, even if it's just a few lines a day. Don't push yourself too hard, take breaks, and come back to programming when you feel refreshed. Remember that learning programming is a journey, and it's okay to take your time to understand concepts. Don't give up, stay motivated, and keep practicing!
** I made other tips for beginners in another post - LINK
a little code snip from one of my personal bots, pochita-bot!
pochita-bot is actually the first discord bot i have ever coded. i used him as a home for all of the tutorial content i used to first get my toes in the water of discord.py!
i also use pochita-bot as a way to test out weird ideas i have if i don't want to make a whole new bot for them lol. so basically pochita-bot is just a notepad for ideas!
anyways...you probably see a few things in this very innocuous clip that you aren't familiar with (if your only knowledge of discord.py is my tutorials lol).
pochita is pretty cool because he can cycle his status on a set interval! you can see this in his actual discord status. pretty cool!!
anyways...why am i showing you this? i am actually brainstorming for next week's tutorial! i will for sure be featuring this command, but am not sure if it makes for a...complete enough tutorial. so, i'm turning to you guys! you have never led me wrong -- so far lol.
i have another feature i was planning on doing a tutorial on for not next week, but the following week. but since the status cycle content is not quite enough, i could either:
postpone next week's tutorial to a later day in the week to combine both of the features into one tutorial; or
release two short tutorials next week.
what are we feeling?
one long one later in the week
two short ones this week!
Voting ended onMar 25, 2023
anyways, thanks guys for all of the engagement recently. i appreciate you all. my messages and ask are always open for anything (within reason lol).
I took a little longer than I wanted for my next post but with only a somewhat made-up posting schedule I’ll excuse myself this once. I’m doing good in my college classes and soon I’ll make a post about my class studies. I also only have 7 weeks left of this semester!
FreeCodeCamp
I like front-end languages so far. I don’t have much experience with javascript yet but I like HTML and CSS. It’s probably because HTML and CSS are a lot easier than other languages so it’s a walk in the park for me compared to the back-end language Java. I’m excited to start my own HTML and CSS projects after I get more confident coding them.
Lessons 70/91 of Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu.
Exercism
I wanted to start with that exercism is not beginner friendly! I think it would be better to do the codecademy java course and have a good basis of the language before heading over to exercism. It’s more for practice projects than actually teaching lessons. The mentors are extremely helpful if you get stuck or for each exercise, I like looking at the community solutions after I finish to see the different ways people coded the same problem!
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