Project is ALIVE! Come here: http://www.twitch.tv/thescriptan I am learning Lua/Love2D right now! So far it's going really well! :)

Hello everyone! My name is Ainis, I am 15 years old. I want to announce that I am starting a new project called "Learning Programming In 2 Years". I got inspired by LethalFrag who just completed his 2 Year Livestream. Main goal of this is to show people how hard and how easy it is to learn programming. To understand what problems you can encourage while you are learning and it should be really fun and interesting to follow my progress and help me to move forward. I am going to be programming with C#, later going to jump to XNA, and lastly going to start with MonoGame, because it is cross-platform, and I know that linux community wants new developers and indie games! Now I am going to tell you all my backstory how I got into programming.

When I was young I wasn't even thinking about programming, I was just playing games and going outside with friends, that was my childhood, I bet a lot of people had same childhood like me, but anyway, I had a good pc at that moment, when suddenly it broke. I was 11~12 at that moment. After one year without computer I finally got a computer, but it was so slow that you guys might not believe. Here are specifications: Intel 700 Mhz, 128 MB Video Card, 384 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD. At that moment I wasn't playing any games, just using it for work, like Word, Powerpoint, Facebook. One day I thought how games are made, and I went to my pc and started researching, after 1~3 days of researching I understood that firstly I have to do very basic steps, only then go deep into game programming, but I didn't do that. I was jumping through programming languages and without motivation leaving them, sometimes I thought that programming was not for me... Then I was like 14 years old. After month I told myself that I can do this and I can make games! I was programming for like one month or two, until I realised I need to grow up a little bit and maybe I will understand everything better, because I wanted to understand everything I write. I hated tutorials that says you just need to do like this, after that I left programming once again. Few weeks later I got a new powerful laptop, sadly it was HP DV6000 (If you don't know what is wrong with I am going to explain here. There is a bug in all HP DV6000, architects of it made a big mistake that causes your GPU to overheat). When I got this pc I was playing all the time. At the very end of my HP death I started messing around with unity but that was unfortunate, because my laptop died... I came back to my old one, then I started programming with C++/C#. At that time I understood everything I was watching, for example: Pointers, OOP, Virtual functions, Polymorphisms, Inheritance, but I got lazy and left programming again... Few months later I got laptop that I am using at this moment, before this laptop I bought low end tablet, where I started using terminal (There is a really awesome program that lets you use full terminal like Linux), started programming with tablet.

I will tell you all one more thing about this project. What laptops, tablet I am using. Well I have three machines, two laptops and one tablet. There is main laptop, old laptop, and for fun tablet . I use main laptop to develop everything. My Old laptop is like a book, or for nightly developments(I can't use my main laptop because he doesn't have battery + his AC adapter is working bad) and I use my tablet for email, twitch, youtube, music, and for some programming as well, recently a new app was released called C# Compiler REPL or something like that. It is really nice, it has lots of functions and stuff!

Well that is it. Here is a backstory of my road into programming, it was a hard road, and tough. Now I understand myself better, and I know problems of mine. Anyways, if you read everything I am really thankful that you read everything, sorry if it was too long for you to read and sorry that my English isn't that great, my English is not a native language and I am still a 15 years old boy. So support me on twitter/youtube/blogger and follow my progress! I would love if some of you guys could give me some advices or advertise my project, because I am starting from barebones, from scratch, that would inspire me a lot!

Links:

Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/thescriptan/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScriptan

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheScriptan

Livestream: Offline!!!

mine is study in less than a year and learn continuously (c++). I've gone a bit far in less 4months.

Even if c++ is the most powerful language, I know that it's not for me. :)

mine is study in less than a year and learn continuously (c++). I've gone a bit far in less 4months.

Even if c++ is the most powerful language, I know that it's not for me. :)

That's a very ambitious project. I'm impressed. If you keep at it and publish your results semi regularly, you'll likely gain at least a small audience. And having an audience can serve as a motivator. Just be sure to ignore the random jerks that might rip into you. They're just jealous.

If you didn't know anything about programming, step 1 would be learn how to program. Since it looks like you're the developer behind Moving@, I'm guessing you know at least a little. I'm also impressed that a 15 year old is interested in a rogue like. Most of you young whipper snappers wouldn't be caught dead playing something so "primitive". Back in my day, we didn't have graphics! *shakes cane*

Future-you (the you that is living in the future) will greatly appreciate these efforts. If the project is successful, it could prove to be a tool in getting a professional development job. Or even a professional game development job! And even if the project isn't that successful, you can at least look back and see how far you've grown as a programmer.

Future-you will also get a chuckle out of the statement "When I was young." ;)

Good luck to you sir. Keep us posted, and when you run into some stumbling blocks, feel free to ask for help here.

- Eck

That's a very ambitious project. I'm impressed. If you keep at it and publish your results semi regularly, you'll likely gain at least a small audience. And having an audience can serve as a motivator. Just be sure to ignore the random jerks that might rip into you. They're just jealous.

If you didn't know anything about programming, step 1 would be learn how to program. Since it looks like you're the developer behind Moving@, I'm guessing you know at least a little. I'm also impressed that a 15 year old is interested in a rogue like. Most of you young whipper snappers wouldn't be caught dead playing something so "primitive". Back in my day, we didn't have graphics! *shakes cane*

Here is a great article for starting out. I can't recommend it enough:

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/your-first-step-to-game-development-starts-here-r2976

Set small, reasonable goals for yourself or you'll quickly get overwhelmed. The above guide has a breakdown of which projects you should tackle first and why. I wouldn't start "your game" until you've completed a few of these first.

And the beginner FAQ is also an excellent place to start:

http://www.gamedev.net/page/reference/faq.php/_/for-beginners-r1

One of the biggest hurdles is dedicating time to learning. You have to choose to do it. You don't always have to choose programming over other things. But if you never choose programming, you'll never get better.

Future-you (the you that is living in the future) will greatly appreciate these efforts. If the project is successful, it could prove to be a tool in getting a professional development job. Or even a professional game development job! And even if the project isn't that successful, you can at least look back and see how far you've grown as a programmer.

Future-you will also get a chuckle out of the statement "When I was young." ;)

Good luck to you sir. Keep us posted, and when you run into some stumbling blocks, feel free to ask for help here.

- Eck

Hi, thank you very much for this post, I will write down some words, because they are so inspiring! ^^ Anyways I like roguelikes, because back in my old pc days, I didnt have anything to play, but then I found roguelikes, I found a big beauty. It was like playing an exclusive game for me, and that's how I got into roguelike development. It would be really good if I am going to be succesfull with this, because I read a tip that says "Programmers are good communicators", when you communicate with users you can make the best program/game.

By the way a new blogpost is coming about my first day at this project. :)

First timelapse y'all, it was done using Ubuntu and gLapse + VirtualDub, and DropBox transfering screenshots. :D

Now I have my livestream, if you want to catch up with me, go to this link: http://www.twitch.tv/thescriptan I didn't even thought that my pc can handle streaming! :) You all could give me tips and so. :)

Stream is live: www.twitch.tv/thescriptan

Good luck with your project!

I am 15 years old.

When I was young I wasn't even thinking about programming,

You are still young

This is the closest I've been to feeling old, ever.