In this episode, we're trying something different with the programming block: instead of me continuing work on our ongoing 'Battleship' gamedev project, I figured that it might be fun for us to go over the very basics of the Python programming-language, from the perspective of someone who's never done any computer programming before.
This is something I've been interested in doing for a while, and the impetus for us finally doing it was that I overheard on his very-awesome stream ( http://twitch.tv/undead_kaiju ) that my friend was interested in picking up Python. I'm really grateful that he agreed to co-host the show with me, and I feel kind of bad that I didn't give him as much of a chance to speak as I probably should've, but I am sort of a lecturer. v_v If this becomes an ongoing series, I hope that I'll be able to strike a better balance between lecturing and discourse. I'm not a trained teacher, after all. T_T
Still, I'd say that we got a lot done for our first outing. We go over what it means to assign values to names / variables, how to use (and even define) functions, as well as covering If-Else logic blocks and While loops. By the end of the stream, we even have a very simple RPG fully programmed, and it's playable!
If you guys have questions, let me know in the Comments of this video, or get a hold of me on Twitch, Discord, Twitter, etc. If you want to join in on the live sessions, make sure to join the Discord channel and let me know so that we can get you up to speed!
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