[arocks]

Hi! This is the author. I was pretty sure that someone would point this out and I completely agree.

But, even Programming has to be taught. Among the many ways to learn programming, I think the best approach is to demonstrate how a good progammer programs and explain the thought process.

[gamesbrainiac]

I gotta say, this looks like it was copied from tutsplus. But hey, if it helps people, who cares. I don't.

[arocks]

I would like to clarify that I was working on this, on and off, since last year (yes, it takes quite a bit of effort to create video tutorials). I read the tutsplus course page and it seems it is a course for teaching Django to beginners. It seems our approaches are different too.

[superchan]

Anyone have a reference to the Tutsplus tutorial? Curious to see how that differs from this one.

[rakeshmenon]

yeah is copied from tutsplus :-/ the only difference being its distributed for free

[schlecht]

Rubs me the wrong way where people don't give the necessary credit.

[benregn]

I agree with you on that. I didn't mean to say that the idea or the video wasn't good.

[Widdershin]

When you say programming has to be taught, do you include being self taught?

[jawr]

Definitely agree with this. I learnt to program with a lot of trial and error.. no screencasts or online workshops.

Also - I haven't actually watched the screencast, but looking at the text the virtualenv setup seems very wrong.

[Widdershin]

Embarrassingly enough, I learnt to program in Game Maker when I was pretty young. I still remember the day when it clicked what variables were :P

[krapp]

Game Maker is fun, I still play around with it now and then.

[Widdershin]

I still consider Game Maker to have the best standard library for actually making 2D games of any engine I've encountered.

[krapp]

It is really quite good at what it does, and it's an easy way of building quick and dirty .exes too.

I do wish knowing GML was good for something somewhere else though. Or that it used another language like Python for its scripting.

[qu4z-2]

Don't be embarrassed. You've got to start somewhere.