fossil sparrow
Got this message from a student's parent of mine:
Thank you.
Can you recommend any books that are particularly good for a beginner to develop their skills in Game Maker.
We have found GameMaker CookBook. Any idea if this would be good for [name of student]?
Having a look, GMCB seems to be from 2015 so it's probs for gms1
unfortunately.. it's the first result when you search "gamemaker book" and same with similar results it seems
anyone got any better suggestions?
fossil sparrow
Stuff like Shaun Spalding's tutorials btw I don't think work for a kid (without direction) due to their length even if they are passionate
Stuff like thenewboston's java tutorials are more what I'm looking for, if possible..
obviously books are preferred but video series works too
little pike
Got this message from a student's parent of mine:
> Thank you.
>
> Can you re...
That book is indeed when GMS1 was out (the preview also shows GMS1)
I haven’t known anyone to make any books as of late so I couldn’t say
fossil sparrow
Fair
Video series for kiddos will do then
little pike
Maybe we should make an up to date book 🤔
little pike
People have done it
And even sold it
So yes
It’s a learning resource
Even HeartBeast (previously known for making GameMaker tutorials, now Godot user) had a book series
But this is for GMS 1.4
daring drum
Even HeartBeast (previously known for making GameMaker tutorials, now Godot user...
is that betrayal
little pike
I mean he did leave GameMaker for Godot so I’d say yeah haha
daring drum
wait..
so is the name gamemaker cookbook already taken
that's so sad cause it fits this server so much
little pike
Hehe well, if it were to be from gm kitchen
I’d rather cater it more towards advance topics imo
daring drum
yes
imagine an open source book
it's like the uh
the juju repo
painful lessons
little pike
Painful lessons, but topics that include
CLI
Build scripts
Proper management of your project assets /j (I’m spit balling lol)
next wigeon
hard to imagine a gamemaker book for kids. how old are we talking?
fossil sparrow
hard to imagine a gamemaker book for kids. how old are we talking?
i teach 8-13 year olds, this kid in particular is 11
but he's new to computers so it's a double learning thing
(most(?) kids around that age are ipad onlys these days)
next wigeon
increasingly uphill battle
fossil sparrow
it's went pretty well actually, they get the concept of mouse movement + clickndrag easier than elderly ppl (who i also teach) as it's similar to phones
keyboard shortcuts are easy to teach too
set em up with monkeytype for a little bit and theyre mostly ok to start learning gms2 as long as theyre willing to put their hand up and ask questions sometimes
it also helps that i teach it more as a "how to make creative ideas / make cool stuff" class
rather than a coding class
secretly they learn code anyway and want to learn how to do it more later
I don't think it'd work at all if I taught it as a coding class
fossil sparrow
computers are so cool
They were
Less now
trying to teach computers to new people is really hard due to the amount of popups that appear on screens nowadays
"install this! new update here! sign into skype!"
and search function not working properly, and the amount of ads, makes it rlly difficult for the elderly to learn
too many extra windows to close
or extra stuff to read
gets rlly overwhelming
little pike
Monkey type aye?
fossil sparrow
even signing into google for the first time is confusing, one of my students started asking about guest mode which i had never heard of before
but if u try sign into google now there's a little line about that
haha yeah i do monkeytype for a bit then i switch to one that's actually focussed on teaching typing (after a few classes*)
but monkeytype is a good one to get em interested
little pike
nods nods that’s intriguing
little pike
even signing into google for the first time is confusing, one of my students sta...
Huh fascinating
fossil sparrow
always good to take the opportunity to show off typing skills too lol
little pike
Technology just keeps on advancing too quick for us old folks
I was thinking about something in relation to typing, need to poke someone
little pike
Hehehe
fossil sparrow
Interesting
(i gtg but will look more later)
fading fossil
You can probably see roughly where I was going with this
next wigeon
undone horizon