Hi, I love to play games, but every so often like everyone else, I think that the game would be so much better if i could put in this one mechanic or fix an annoying bug. Anyway I'm looking for a place that can teach beginners and also when I reach it, keep it going at advanced level. I'm particularly interested in game dev so if you have suggestions as to any websites that can help it would be much appreciated! Thanks <3 (Ill be out for 2 hours so ill not reply until I'm back <3)
Well you will want to learn general programming first. Such as structure and syntax. But for gaming go with Unity for starters. It is free and has tons of tutorials
I tutor people who would like to learn programming, I use game-mechanics to explain things. I'm also working on a website and a book to learn people programming from scratch. Currently in the process of writing articles. Hit me up if interested.
Depending on what languages you're planning on learning, https://www.codeschool.com/ has some great courses. Might not be quite what you're looking for since you're more interested in gaming.
I started coming close to programming when I was making maps for Starcraft2, it's complex trigger and data system allowed you to transform the game into completely different genres even. I quit making maps 3 years ago and started working with Unity couple months ago. I'm learning how to make games, coding in C#. And I'm happy I made maps for Starcraft first, that helped me a lot with how things work and are structured in code. I'm still pretty novice at code, but I learn as I go. I don't follow a specific course, I just base myself around what I want to do and look up how other people do similar things. Experimenting, combining and searching for examples is how I learn. Watching lots of videos is also my thing, I'm really not good at remembering text (which is pretty ironic considering what code is ), I'm much better at remembering audio and video. But I do not recommend doing it my way. Unless you're someone like me.
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial/CSharp/Lesson01 The best beginner code tutorial I've ever seen. It handles a lot of basics that translate to lots of languages really well. Comes with source code and explains it line by line. You end up with a solid reference point instead of having to memorize a bunch of crap and hoping it sticks by telling you to type it repeatedly(almost every other online code tutorial I've seen). Then again, I still can't wrap my head around game editors. Memory hacking and command line interfaces are more transparent for me than the Unity Dev Kit.
Read the first page and I have to say, this is what I've been looking for! I can actually follow what they're trying to say. Ill definitely keep with this one. Thanks again <3
