This course is designed for absolute beginners in programming who wish to make their start in the field!
As a university lecturer of many years I’ve interacted with students enough to get a feel for what works in terms of teaching and practicing. The concept of this course is to take more of a ‘classroom’ approach to teaching and hopefully encourage you to practice and learn with me as we make our way through the course material together.
The course is centred around the Lua programming language and the Love2D framework. Lua is a great beginner language to get started with as it is a lot simpler and more straight-forward than other languages.
The course structure is basically that we jump straight into making stuff and explain concepts as we come across them. After we make our first game together, we go back and clarify some concepts. I have taken this approach because a criticism I have of most programming tutorials that I’ve come across is that they overwhelm you with out-of-context theory at the start before actually doing anything fun. With my model, we immediately make something tangible and then go back and talk about the theory, but since we’ve already used it in a meaningful way, the theory and concepts will make a lot more sense and will be enjoyable to learn about!
- Beginner computer programmers
