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About me

Hi, I’m Ros. I’m a freelance coding instructor and I make educational content about programming. I was an artist but I moved closer to programming due to my interest in game development. I did cs50, which is an introduction to computer science that I highly recommend for anyone interested to learn programming.

A quick disclaimer. Due to various circumstances, the best place for me to work is my local library but I won’t be able to record my voice or myself. For now, I’m using text to speech and an avatar of myself.

My intentions

I still wish to do this series despite all these issues. This will be a playlist series for my godot adventures! Been wanting to learn how to use it forever, especially since it’s open source. I have some experience using Unity3d but that was quite a long time ago so this will be new for me.

So what I will be doing is diving straight into making a simple 2d fully playable game. I haven’t figured out exactly what the game will be about, so that will be in the next video. Do comment if you have any ideas! I’ll be avoiding space shooter because I've done a few versions of it.

In this series, I’ll be sharing what I did, any errors I make or come across while using as little tutorials as possible. So you’ll be seeing a raw, unfiltered look at me learning by doing as well as the messy parts of game development. While i do have some coding and gamedev experience, I haven’t code in a while. So I’ll share whatever I know but there will be some missing gaps which I’ll hopefully find out in this adventure.

Why am I doing this in this way?

So, I have ADHD. I’ll probably get bored of it in a few months time and I’m trying to use this youtube channel as an accountability buddy and taking a totally different approach to avoid boredom.

This will also be a way for me to overcome any fears of making videos due to perfectionism. I’m pretty sure there are videos like this and my videos will be messy and feel like a work in progress. There will be stuff all over the place but my intention is to highlight quality learning over all these issues. By reminding myself that this is an unknown channel and whatever issues I have are not the point. Doing this will allow me to get better with video making. Regardless of how bad the video quality is, the content is more important.

And the goal to make a fully playable game as well as potentially inspire and encourage viewers to try diving into learning stuff as well.

Avoiding tutorial hell

Maybe you’ve heard that the best way to learn anything is to dive straight into it. This experience will teach you more than any tutorial ever would. Doing this will get you to use muscle memory instead of memorization which is more effective for lifelong learning. You’ll also learn what programming is like where you’ll face a lot of frustration, annoyance, why is my code not working and so on. And this is where I’ll share all of it!

I'll be avoiding tutorial hell which is definitely a fault of mine. I’ll try to only search for specific stuff that I need to solve. In case I do use a tutorial, I’ll record why and how I come out of it. It might be unavoidable for me to go through some resources so I'll summarise what I've learned. I'll try to honestly share whatever I can as long as I think it will be useful and helpful for your programming journey.

My current setup/environment

I’ll be using OBS, maybe canva and capcut for video editing or graphics stuff. I’ll also use AI tools like ChatGPT and RunwayML. Mostly for brainstorming.

I’m likely to record during the weekdays so I’m not sure how often uploading will go. I’m also job hunting so I might upload less or stop uploading depending on how things go.

How you can support

You can simply support me by subscribing, liking or sharing. This will also allow you to receive a notification when videos are out!

Your support might help me have accountability and encourage people to learn programming.

If you can afford it, I have a "buy me a coffee" link in the description. I’ll also set up a patreon if it goes well. It will hopefully allow me to eventually afford a quiet room for recording.

My hope is that you will learn how to not let perfectionism get in the way to simply "start"

Let’s see where this adventure takes us!

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