How would I learn coding easier?

[Electro]

Okay, first of all, I have a terrible memory, I usually forget everything I learned within an hour. Second of all, I learn by people actually explaining it, not some text tutorial. I've tried before, starting at Lua (roblox). I want to start making games on that. Anyone have any good sources that fits in this category?

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[Blockzillahead]

Make actual games with lua? lol lua is a dead beat scripting language. Unless Roblox is the only reason you want to program, I suggest starting off with something better, especially if you want to make games.

[Caribou]

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

[lolz??]

khanacademy isn't half bad because it has interactive stuff but they teach you a dimmed down version of the language processing, not something you will ever likely use, if you know somebody who can code in a language like c, c++, c#, java, or some more mainstream language, i'd suggest trying to take lessons from them

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

that looks cool

[Electro]

My school's coding class sucks, all you do is play games and stuff.

[Alkatjo]

My school's coding class sucks, all you do is play games and stuff.

We have a computer app class and all I do is make games for them to play. All it takes is flash and c++. I basically got a free ride out of that class just because I've spent so much of my childhood on roblox.

[Titanium Man]

My school's coding class sucks, all you do is play games and stuff.

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

[AlsoSulfate]

My school's coding class sucks, all you do is play games and stuff.

are you sure you're not just lazy? my computer science class had people who played games, but that was only because they were lazy and ignored the teacher 100% of the time. there was real material being taught.

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

my highschool did it this way:

grade 10 you learn scratch for 2 weeks to introduce concepts. then you learn C# for the rest of the year
grade 11 switches to java for the whole year
grade 12 is do whatever you want (in terms of programming language). but the teacher teaches mainly java

[LordCutlerBeckett]

Just gonna throw LOVE2D out there. Good 2D framework that makes it easier to start and get basics down.

[otto-san]

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.

[Electro]

are you sure you're not just lazy? my computer science class had people who played games, but that was only because they were lazy and ignored the teacher 100% of the time. there was real material being taught.

my highschool did it this way:

grade 10 you learn scratch for 2 weeks to introduce concepts. then you learn C# for the rest of the year
grade 11 switches to java for the whole year
grade 12 is do whatever you want (in terms of programming language). but the teacher teaches mainly java

No, I literally mean we just play games.

Make actual games with lua? lol lua is a dead beat scripting language. Unless Roblox is the only reason you want to program, I suggest starting off with something better, especially if you want to make games.

I like to design things for people to enjoy.

[Titanium Man]

No, I literally mean we just play games.

what do you mean
like you just sit there and play flash games? bullstuff

[The Resonte!]

No, I literally mean we just play games.

we'll take what we can get


what do you play

[Electro]

we'll take what we can get


what do you play

some stuffty flash games where you place the right code into the script. its like a fill in the blank type thing

[The Resonte!]

some stuffty flash games where you place the right code into the script. its like a fill in the blank type thing

link please


pleaseeeeeeeee