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Where should one start, or what should one use? also got any tips? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by QuietStorm@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/programming

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So ive been trying to code for a few mouths now but its kind ahard with life, depression, autism, and dylexia i just feel like this might be an impossible task. i really want to make a game and im not sure why, i even got rpg maker 2003 but idk how to use it do i learn myself or are there videos for it?

Im not sure if im doing thing wrong but how shoudl one start/do if they want to make video games on a low-endish computer? also i cant run things like unity or unreal, dang... feel free to share tips aswell and please be kind, ive been suggested coding/game dev alot for some reason and im not sure if its for me but idk what else to do.

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[–] gaael 1 points 1 year ago

Depression/anxiety/ADHD hobbyist programmer here.

What really worked for me was having access to a learning course with an adapted progression and gamified mechanisms.

The usual sequence was :

some material to go through (usually articles, some videos)
some easy application exercises
some trickier exercises
small-time "projects" sprinkled here and there to make use of different concepts learned previously

This was great for me because :

I didn't have to look for the basics learning material, so I always had enough information to be able to google the right keywords when I was struggling with an exercises, I was never really stuck
I always managed to do at least the easy exercises and the first of the trickier ones
the projects assignments were always structured the same way : get a simple mvp working, add some crude features, refine a subset of the features, go the extra length so I always managed to produce somethkng and felt challenged to do a little more

I learned by doing stuff I didn't care about (like scraping official government pages to create a database of elected representatives) but in a setting where I felt enough success and progression that I was able to enjoy challenge.

After a few months I had understood enough to begin creating stuff I was actually interested in. By then, I was able to understand the answers written in programming forums (be it Stack Overflow or subreddits) and to parse language official documentation.

Anyway, I wish you happiness on your learning path !