How would I learn coding easier?

[Khorde]

start small.

believe it or not, game maker is actually a great program to start in.

it pretty much gives a gui to the coding system. if you understand what codes you need to do to do what, it's cakewalk from there.

download the demo, seriously. it helped me grasp coding a lot better.

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[K1ng_0f_N0thing]

Code academy is actually a great place to start, I recommend starting out with Ruby (http://www.codecademy.com).

Wow that's cool!

[.:FancyPants:.]

Code academy is actually a great place to start, I recommend starting out with Ruby (http://www.codecademy.com).

> got super hyped
> no C or C++

[Electro]

link please


pleaseeeeeeeee

according to the teacher, he made it himself. It was in my student file so idk.

[lolz??]

turns out our schools coding class is just using scratch
so loving pissed, i expected something reasonably normal not some dumbed-down visual programming language designed for kindergartners

most public school "coding" or "technology" classes are really dumbed down, you'd think for the generation that has the most contact with computers people would be more interested or capable at learning code, although it's really just the teachers thinking everybody's stupid most of the time

> got super hyped
> no C or C++

ikr, well atleast they have javascript and python, I was that close to getting a good website to learn C from to

[Kingdaro]

the best thing is to just do it

coding is something you can only get better at through experience. even if your first language is lua or something, you still learn about the theory of coding and ideas about syntax.

This, this, a thousand times this.

[Electro]

i've done lua so many times that i know all about variables, inputs, outputs, inspectors, etc.

[The Resonte!]

i've done lua so many times that i know all about variables, inputs, outputs, inspectors, etc.

use your newfound knowledge to learn other languages and dominate the tech class!

[Khorde]

i've done lua so many times that i know all about variables, inputs, outputs, inspectors, etc.

then keep doing it until you can write it yourself.

[otto-san]

i've done lua so many times that i know all about variables, inputs, outputs, inspectors, etc.

move on to something like python then, or maybe torquescript if you want to make mods for BL. TS is p good at teaching you how to optimize code once you get more advanced

i wouldn't move onto things like C++ until you had a bit of experience in more 'involved' languages

[.:FancyPants:.]

i thought we had a coding megathread on off-topic at one point
maybe that's just me imagining the computer megathread as something else

good idea???

[Kingdaro]

i've done lua so many times that i know all about variables, inputs, outputs, inspectors, etc.

The whole of programming is problem solving and logic. You can know the syntax of any language fluently, but it won't matter if you can't figure out how to make a box move on a screen.

i thought we had a coding megathread on off-topic at one point
maybe that's just me imagining the computer megathread as something else

good idea???

We did, but it died. There were like two people here that were actually posting in it.

[xSetrox]

ROBLOX uses a hugely modified version of lua to make it so that 8 year olds can "script".
Don't rely on ROBLOX to teach you lua. Learn it from some actual websites, and not some MMORPG for kids. (no offense)

[.:FancyPants:.]

We did, but it died. There were like two people here that were actually posting in it.

i feel like with all the people creating small games and wanting to learn more about languages, a nice thread storing a bunch of books, pdfs, tutorials, videos, etc on coding as well as projects people have up for public would stay alive fairly long, it'd also allow us to ask each other for help quickly and so on

i'm searching for a previous coding megathread but nothings coming up

[CreamTurk3y]

Code academy is actually a great place to start, I recommend starting out with Ruby (http://www.codecademy.com).

This is actually really helpful and I'm liking this a lot. :D