June 2nd, 2023 Video Q&A: Does G2 have any advice for any aspiring programmers?

June 2nd, 2023 Video

Q&A: Does G2 have any advice for any aspiring programmers?

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what advice I would give to new programmers or those who want to study programming first of all like why do you want to learn programming and what parts are you interested in I would say it's the first thing to to think about because that's going to affect a little bit which resources you get and stuff like that so if you want to learn game programming you might want to learn C plus plus or C sharp because that's used by the two two major engines out there then I would start with the basics learning like the basics of the language like what what's a variable what's the for Loop I will start with just the basics and do some exercises on that and when doing the exercises don't just follow the tutorial but play around a little bit with them and see what you can do with it and I think it's important to choose good projects to to start and not go too difficult like if you're just starting to learn programming maybe a console program to do rock paper scissors is a good first start and then move on to like Tic-tac-toe and then if you want to learn some some more game programming and a little bit of math going into games I would do something like Space Invaders or asteroids like those kinds of games what programming languages