NEED HELP? User with almost 10 years in game maker will help you!

[LeD]

New to Game Maker or programming at all? Need some help? Directions? Don't go to youtube, it's the worst thing you can do. So, where should you go? Nowhere, you're in the right place already!
Don't be shy, add me, I don't bite. Some rules apply:

Rules and stuff:

1. I won't respond to questions/issues left on this discussion page. Add me instead.
2. I won't write to you, you write to me. It's up to you to get regular sessions and help. (I will write to you after I add you, so you know invitation went through)
3. I won't make any code for you. If you want to add me so Ill write a piece you can't, don't even think about it.
4. I have a life as well, so I might not be willing to help at all times, please respect that.
5. By adding me you agree that casual talk is fine, I'd rather get to know people I'm gonna help.

Add me if:

-You're new to programming
-You're new to game maker
-You want to fill in holes in your knowledge about things you don't understand
-You are already semi-skilled programmer who wants counseling on a recent issue(be aware of rule #3).

[Hayden's Studio]

Just going to send you a friend request, for casual chat. Won't bother you with requests, can already code C# inside unity 3D and do many other things.

Interested in your experience.

[Thew]

It's awesome that you're trying to help out the community here! But I definitely disagree with your point about Youtube being the "worst" place you can go for tutorials. There are some absolutely fantastic resources there.

Also, answering questions only in private Steam chat really limits the scope of the help you can provide. By having public discussions (like Seabass does), many people can search for and be helped by your advice. Just something to consider.

[Blind]

I'll subscribe to this discission - I'm a rather ancient programmer as well and I like helping people.

[LeD]

Originally posted by Thew:

But I definitely disagree with your point about Youtube being the "worst" place you can go for tutorials. There are some absolutely fantastic resources there.(...)
Also, answering questions only in private Steam chat really limits the scope of the help you can provide.(...)

It's called a programming language for a reason. You speak it to talk to the computer. That's my philosophy. And if you go on youtube you don't learn it, you're just taught ready paragraphs, like citing a book or something. And once that's the only way you can "talk" it can be really hard to fix someone's ways with programming. And as of private help, it's a matter of choice. I mean, you can always go to Seabass' thread if you like that.

[BOYCOTT S-T-E-A-M!]

Originally posted by Thew:

Also, answering questions only in private Steam chat really limits the scope of the help you can provide. By having public discussions (like Seabass does), many people can search for and be helped by your advice. Just something to consider.

I'd like to second this notion. I'm all for someone out there being willing to help people and, obviously, you're welcome to do that however you see fit. But it seems like you'll run the risk of ending up answering the same questions from different people quite often. Whereas if you had a running discussion in this thread then newcomers might find an answer prior to bugging you for information.


Given that your original posting is well formatted and presented have you considered making tutorials, guides, or courses of some kind?

If your focus is to teach people good coding practices as opposed to addressing more specific issues like a person having problems with a section of code or how to go about implementing something then it really does seem like a written series of guides would be the most efficient method.

If you want to cover proper ways to handle specific implementations of things maybe people could post general topics they would like to see covered here and then you could post up a guide or information about it.


You can do it however you please and however works for you. I appreciate you helping people. But if your goal is to have people learn proper coding it seems like it would be best to have it more readily available than 1-on-1 tutoring. Permanently available written guides or answers would be more available than having to rely on two peoples schedules lining up.

[LeD]

Thank you for your lenghty response. You make quite a few of good points, but I still stand my ground. I pick quality over quantity. And yes, I will be answering similar or same questions quite a lot, but a person looking for an answer that already exists will doubtfuly learn anything. I'd rather process smaller amount of people but have influence on their education. If you've ever heard of efficiency of Finnish education you'll know what I mean.

If anybody wishes to ask questions and have them answered here on discussion forums...

...please see this topic made by Seabass.

[devilofether]

Hello LeD, thanks for all the help!

[LeD]

Shameless bump, I'm on and waiting!

[:D]

Thanks for the swift answer to my enquiry Led :D

[VashKaiser]

Added. Hope to talk to you soon :)