Comment by gibolt
20 days ago
This is how I learned a long time ago with Game Maker. Everything was Gui based, but you could also add code blocks to do more powerful things.
Eventually, most things I built were nothing but code blocks.
20 days ago
This is how I learned a long time ago with Game Maker. Everything was Gui based, but you could also add code blocks to do more powerful things.
Eventually, most things I built were nothing but code blocks.
I had pretty much the exact same experience with Game Maker too. In retrospect, feels like a very powerful pedagogical tool. Even when I wasn't really trying to "learn coding" but rather I just wanted to make some games, I ended up learning to code
The fact that _most_ things could be done with drag-and-drop, but for some features you had to drop down to scripting, served as a really nice and gentle stepping stone to writing code.
Anecdote follows. The below matters little.
I did the same gradual move, and I can remember being excited to get home from school because I might have solved some problem by letting it tick over in my head.
But I do remember thinking GML was amazing (it was fugly, kid), and struggling with C, because the language was so different. (These days, leap to love2D and Lua instead).
Just the idea of multiple languages was so foreign and impossible to me. Writing a raycaster in GML was possible, writing an event loop in C was insane... And these days picking up a language tutorial for something new is a hobby.
Same, except for me it was Corel Click & Create.