When you say programming has to be taught, do you include being self taught?

jawr · on May 29, 2013

Definitely agree with this. I learnt to program with a lot of trial and error.. no screencasts or online workshops.

Also - I haven't actually watched the screencast, but looking at the text the virtualenv setup seems very wrong.

Widdershin · on May 29, 2013

Embarrassingly enough, I learnt to program in Game Maker when I was pretty young. I still remember the day when it clicked what variables were :P

krapp · on May 30, 2013

Game Maker is fun, I still play around with it now and then.

Widdershin · on May 30, 2013

I still consider Game Maker to have the best standard library for actually making 2D games of any engine I've encountered.

krapp · on May 30, 2013

It is really quite good at what it does, and it's an easy way of building quick and dirty .exes too.

I do wish knowing GML was good for something somewhere else though. Or that it used another language like Python for its scripting.

Widdershin · on May 31, 2013

Nothing would make me happier than being able to use Python with Game Maker's functionality.

qu4z-2 · on May 30, 2013

Don't be embarrassed. You've got to start somewhere.