game-programmer VS scratch-www

I like this resource, it lists different starting spots based on skill level as well as different tracks (engine programming, AI, multiplayer, etc). https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer

This site gives an entire study path from kids to adults to learn game programming: https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer

https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer This has everything. Start reading if you want industry level knowledge. Courses wont get you to that level. Also while reading you can implement all of this!

https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer Go to the last section

A Study Path for Game Programmer

This collection was shared a lot in the past, still a good list of game programming related books: https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer (my favorites here are the Game Programming Gems and AI Game Programming Wisdom that I collected in the past).

I'm more into programming... At the moment I only have experience in web dev (html, css, js, react etc).. I'm starting to read some books from this guide https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer Also I watched some guide on YouTube on how to use UE5 and unity... Maybe in 1-2 year a can define myself as a (junior) game dev.. For the moment I'm just scratching the surface.. I made this post to understand if this effort will be repaid somehow...

Check out this study path: https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer

There are not that many, I learned a bit from books like Game Coding Complete and Game Engine Architecture. There are obviously others that are not that high level, they get more into real-time topics like rendering, AI behaviour/navigation, etc. (Books that appear in that list for example: https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer)

and https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now.

I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I think when kids grok these things these apps become just types of glofiried education flavoured video games. There are a lot of things in kodable for instance that I feel are just basic web games with coding terms slapped on it.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ is more like 'programming' imo, even at the level of the objective -- having a blank canvas to create something. It seems a little advanced for my kids right now though.

+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua.

Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Scratch.mit.edu is a highly-recommended place to start [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/

> Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization. [2]

1: https://scratch.mit.edu/

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Scratch version 2)

Someone who uses scratch.mit.edu (like me)

Now that I think of it, I did start game development on scratch before going right into java (because of minecraft).

I'm looking for the best systems to help a 4/5 year old get the basics of programming. My daughter has shown interest in what I do, and loves puzzles and building things. Looking for something visual and fun that can start her down the path of logic and creating with computers.

I have a passing familiarity with Scratch [1], which I'm now looking into more, but am hoping others can share their knowledge and experience in this area.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/