Squidly Games

Since liquid is a huge theme in this game (milk, coffee, water), we want it to look as rad as possible. Here’s the latest coffee and water shaders. 

playing some Plink, a multiplayer unity game.

Chat on http://twitch.tv/fervire 

play at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15951323/Plink/Builds.html …

Asset pack 5 Part 2 available for all @SuperpowersDev supporters !

Help by my brother for this one :)

Support us at  :) -> https://sparklinlabs.com/ <3

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

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First month’s submissions:

Dot, dot, dots

The first set of submissions is ready and the second set is on its way. Don’t forget that you can still submit until the 25th of November.

Participants

1st row: Jerome Herr (portfolio | code), Josip Amades Čerić (portfolio)

Gwyn Demo 3:

Scarlett Witch! for Game Boy - v0.1b

Development blog, Part 5: (A reblog will be really appreciated!)

Finally I have a working version to share with you! This is what I made for my final college project. Maybe it’s a bit short demo but you can enjoy it!

You will need a flash cart to try it on a real Game Boy, or you can use an emulator (I highly recommend BGB). Remember, Scarlett Witch works on both Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

Hope you like it!

Download Scarlett Witch v0.1b - link Download BGB Emulator - link

Github source code - link

Code and Graphics - @davitsu Music - AntonioND

MCCC: november 2015 (another variation)

Tamperdrome Collection

Tamperdrome Collection (by G. P. Lackey, who was also involved in GenerateACat) is a suite of generators that make cats, islands, goblins, dogs, inhabitants, and ghosts in response to your input. It, or parts of it, have apparently been exhibited in physical form. 

I like projects like like this that aren’t pressuring themselves to be more than they are. While I can think of all kinds of uses for these tools as a part of a larger interactive sim (and will probably borrow some ideas from here and from Strangethink in the future) I admire the way that the Tamperdrome Collection is more interested in being what is it rather than trying to be something that it isn’t. Generative art can be an end in itself.