Escape "Tutorial Hell" - Build Your Programming Skills 

The last one hopefully.

This video is technically not q tutorial ..

That’s called ‘recursion’ 👍

Thanks for the feedback! I have a couple video ideas that will require me to show some screen captures along with what I’m talking about, maybe once I get used to it that will be the norm. Thanks for watching!

I think Udemy is useful and also datacamp for a easier start. Data camp is easy in that each small bite-size lesson has a small exercise and you just instantly start to code, simple but effective I think. It's much better than sitting there and listening to 20 hours of college style lecture. God knows I can't keep in my mind all the functions. As you said, practice practice with some example in mind and it takes time. Rome wasn't built in a day and a good programmer wasn't made just because we took one college course and passed a leetcode tech interview. Infact passing leetcode tech interview means not much imo, it's like scoring high on SAT, doesn't mean shit for actually college course lol. Best way is remembering how your work could be automated with script and try to rewrite the script to help your work.

Same here!

Lol I was on the fence about using it since it seemed clickbaity, but it made me laugh once I threw it together so I’m glad I did. Thanks for watching!

I retook a few classes when I was in college, there's no shame of it and when it was time to repeat them I was better prepared for the challenge. Good luck and thanks for watching!

I think you’re on the right track! I would suggest continuing to apply, especially to places where you don’t care if you get a rejection letter. It can help you learn your blindspots, get you experience so you’re more comfortable in interviews you do care about, and who knows - it could lead to a job that you really enjoy. Thanks for watching and good luck!

​@@SyncMain Thank you so much! I appreciate the encouraging words!

you are stuck in secondary tutorial hell

@@TimothyNyotaYeah 😂 But I already working as a Data Analyst. Just upgrading my CS skills.

Front-end/UI work has always been a bummer to me, but I appreciate the people who are good at it so that I don't have to be 😅 I suggest making your tools anyway, even if they already exist! You'll probably like it more than someone else's, especially because you can customize it to your needs, or add it to a larger set of tools as you go along. If you're looking to make something and turn it into a business, a good bit of advice I've gotten over the years is "you don't need to be first, you can be the best" and I think that's true of a lot of things. Just think about how many music streaming services we have these days - Spotify snapped up a huge market share when they came out with flat-rate library-based streaming, and initially their library was massive compared to others that were out there, but now we have Spotify, RU-vid Music, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc etc. They all have their pros and cons and for the most part each have their own competitive reason to exist. If you're just talking about making free useful tools, consider open sourcing it! Who knows, it could become a mainstay on all of our workstations. Either way it's good practice and time well spent, don't get too hung up on 'reinventing the wheel,' I'm pretty sure real engineers should learn how wheels are made anyway if they're planning on making better ones. Thanks for watching and good luck!

Text-based dungeon crawler! Chat program! Grab SDL and build a few simple games! With a general purpose language like C++ you can really do anything, but my mind always gravitates towards games ;) Thanks for watching and good luck!

I'm working on a tutorial series that describes the basics of C++, but maybe after I can do a series about building something, which would highlight 'divide and conquer'. For now just keep trying on your own, and apply the lessons you've learned so far! After learning the basics of programming, the actual problem solving you get better at through trying and experience, and it's hard to share that through short videos or text. Good luck and thanks for watching!

At my first game job I had a senior engineer scream in my face for checking in an ‘assert’ by accident. My productivity crumbled and I barely did any work out of fear of doing it the wrong way and making any more mistakes. All these years later I realize that guy was embarrassed to have gotten stuck for a couple hours not knowing why an assert was being hit, which should have been fairly quick to find out at his level, and he took his insecurity out on me as anger. I hope you tweak and code fearlessly! Good luck and thanks for watching

@@SyncMain Yeah it was a bad experience, right now I'm still afraid to code but will continue until I can tweak and code without a problem.

I've gone back and forth on saying it, but have leaned away from it because I didn't notice any difference on the videos I have used it. So in my newer videos, I don't say it. Thanks for watching!

Si lo disfrutas, ¡sigue aprendiendo! Hay muchos trabajos de C++ y el lenguaje continúa evolucionando.

In your case it might be helpful to through a few tutorials. I think tutorials are still a valuable initial learning tool, just some people feel like they don’t know how to grow beyond them, hence the video. If you’re struggling with scripting in Unity it can be helpful to learn C# outside of context of the engine, so you have a little more programming knowledge before grappling with Unity specifics. Thanks for watching and good luck!

@@SyncMain ok, thats actually helpful to know i havent been sure how to continue since im worried about getting stuck in a pointless cycle.

Maybe at some point! The code repository I've used for most of my game career has been Perforce, but I do use git for personal projects. Before that I used SVN and CVS.

It's very unlikely if you've completed those courses that more school would benefit you, other than as time spent learning. I'd place my money on a bet that if you start figuring out how to apply the things you've learned to creating stuff would do you much better (and probably cost you less.) Make some games! Participate in Ludum Dare! Spend some time in a game engine replicating mechanics you like from other games! I think from here it's just building experience. Thanks for watching and good luck!

I think that's a great option. Check out my "Learning Resources" video, there's some resources for teaching yourself/learning for free, and then depending on the kind of job you're looking for you can start building projects that are related to that specialty :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uyvgYPkX_gM.html Thanks for watching!

I might not be the right person for it, but I highly recommend googling “Automate the Boring Stuff.” It’s a Python programming book for beginners and is available for free online from No Starch Press 😀

I believe EA has their own proprietary engine they use for a lot of their games, including their sports games like FIFA. If you'd like to do game programming, learning some Blueprint is fine but writing what you can in C++ will help you build skills useful for companies that need a game programmer. Depending on where you wind up and what kind of work you do, it's likely you'll be adding visual scripting support (like Blueprint nodes) to whatever game you're working on that designers can use, so it's good to spend some time with it. I believe internships in the states are reserved for people still studying for undergraduate or post graduate degrees, but don't shy away from applying to entry level positions you see when you graduate. If getting into EA Sports is your goal, try making pieces that would be important to building a sports game! Any game development experience is transferable to other types of games in my opinion, but if you enjoy playing sports games you'll have a better idea of what things you could build (career mode UI & progression systems, ball physics, opposing player AI, team management, etc) to grow and showcase your skills. Thanks for watching and good luck! OH I did want to mention that EA has a version of STL called EASTL, it would be worth checking that out! Maybe you can integrate it into Unreal and get familiar with it and learn its advantages over C++'s standard library.

Maybe! I would want to involve other engineers and do it properly before publishing it though, so it may take some time. For now check out Handmade Hero with Casey Muratori!

You’re the first, but it’s a good question! My basic understanding of it is the listings are describing the most ideal candidate. The best advice I ever received was to let the people interviewing you decide if you’re qualified or not, and if you think you have the chops and are ready, just apply anyway. Most of the time you’ll get a quick rejection if you’re not at the level they need, but sometimes they’ll proceed with the selection/interview process and move forward with promising candidates (people who they think have potential.) For games specifically, the best way to prove you’re ready is to have some finished and playable games or demos. I learned what gaps in knowledge I had to fill by failing interviews and getting feedback, so get started and good luck! Thanks for watching 😀

@@SyncMain thanks a lot for the advice ❤️

After you’ve gotten a grasp on the C++ basics maybe you can look into integrating/using a library like SDL. This will allow you to quickly bring up a window that you can render basic 2d stuff to while you figure out some of the basics of game programming. After that you can try setting up your own opengl render (learnopengl.com) and keep using what you’ve learned with SDL, or you could consider learning Unreal. It’s up to you and your goals! Thanks for watching!

@@SyncMain Thank you very much sir.

It sounds like you’re doing well without a mentor! I still have my moments of feeling like an idiot trust me, it’s the moment that we’ve solved the problem and feel like a genius that makes up for it lol. I’d suggest applying to jobs anyway, maybe some that you don’t actually want at first, just to get some real time interviewing, and figure out what works best on your resume. The best advice I ever received was to let the companies determine if you’re qualified for the position or not 🙂 My early interviews were rejections, but they helped me narrow down what I needed to focus on to become employable, and sometimes I would get advice directly from the interviewers on what to do next, even though they were turning me down for the job. I even took jobs I didn’t know I wanted when I applied because they won me over in the interview! Remember, interviews are bi-directional. Thanks for watching and good luck!

Tutorials probably aren't the best way to find out what the language can be used for, since most language-specific tutorials will be about the syntax of the language and not so much its use. In C you could create create some small projects that can turn into big ones - a peer-to-peer chat application, or create a custom web server and respond to HTML requests (These will require knowledge of networking and using system-level networking calls). You can create your own text-based RPG, or with a bit of help from an external library like SDL2, you could create a game with images and input from your mouse and keyboard. If you're really into it you can figure out how to get images rendering on the screen yourself (Casey Muratori has a video series on that, check out Handmade Hero!) You could write your own database software using your own file format that you created. Other programming languages are written with C, like Python and Lua. You could create your own toy scripting language, or write your own compiler. It's more of a problem of what *can't* you do with C, and depending on what you want to make there might be ways of getting done what you want to get done with less immediate friction, but you don't have to choose those options. And the struggle is real! If you can persevere through the struggle, and figure out which pieces of the problem you can work on one at a time, you'll learn and grow past that point. Thanks for watching and good luck!

@@SyncMain Thank you man, I didn’t expect the reply but I really appreciate it. Ill be taking this into consideration as I move further. All love ❤️❤️

Maybe check out my video about learning resources so you can go beyond learning the basics of the programming language and delve into problem solving and application development: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uyvgYPkX_gM.html Thanks for watching and good luck!

@@SyncMain thanks buddy I didn't expect u will reply 😂

I know Android Studio, at least at one point, was forked from Eclipse, so if you’re having trouble maybe you can get help searching for Eclipse C++. If you’re building Android apps though and are new to programming you might want to start with Java or Kotlin, since they’re the officially supported languages. You can absolutely write Android code in C++, but there’s fewer hoops to jump through by sticking to the meta, at first. Good luck and thanks for watching!

It’s important to set realistic expectations and keep chipping away at learning. If you get fatigued definitely save your work, leave yourself some notes on where you left off, and take a break, maybe even call it for the day. Just keep coming back to it. Thanks for watching!

Same here

Maybe one day I'll create a full tutorial series and write a book that I can stand by and feel proud of, I just don't think a lot of the official published resources are good enough to introduce people to C as their first language. I absolutely think C can be someone's first language, but without knowing someone it's hard to recommend something specific. I clicked through a lot of the pages in this tutorial, and since you have an internet connection, this could be a good start. Just make sure to search online to learn more about things you didn't understand (specifically terms unfamiliar to you) and don't settle on any one resource if they start to lose you. Tentatively, based on having enjoyed GeeksForGeeks resources in the past, I can recommend this as a place to possibly start: www.geeksforgeeks.org/c-language-introduction Another caveat: I generally write C++ code, and although I enjoy writing C++ in a 'C' style, I can't claim to be a C expert right now. Verify your sources, test your assumptions, and persevere through roadblocks, and don't be afraid to change directions. Good luck and thanks for watching!

If salary is your only goal, then find the path of least resistance. I think part of the negative side of people suggesting that web dev is easier than other kinds of programming is that it, like other programming, is pretty dang hard. That's why I always default to suggesting that people learn what interests them most! Most programming jobs are well paid, and if you enjoy the work involved you won't be sorry when it pays you. It's going to be tough either way. Good luck and thanks for watching!

I would say it's hard, but it's also hard to get the same job with a degree. Unfortunately some people go to school expecting the program to teach them everything they need to be employable, but that's just not the case (for most schools.) I'd say having real work experience doing what you do is a leg-up, since you know what working feels like and can put that level of effort into your learning :) I have a video about learning resources, a lot of them are free, and once you're up and programming you can start applying to software engineering jobs to get the interviewing experience you need, and valuable feedback from hiring managers who can tell you best what gaps in your knowledge you need to fill. Eventually, once you're a right fit for them and they're the right fit for you, you can sign an offer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uyvgYPkX_gM.html Good luck and thanks for watching!

Thank You@@SyncMain

ps about math you got functions on top of functions and numerical methods free on the web if you go into engineering they will put you learn and translate all kinds of methods which fundamentally requires pretty much all the mathematics we created BUT without it`s analytical form, it no longer exist in the world of computers just to end up finding out others already solved them and reached symbolic languages already and there is no real need for you to waste so much time building forks and hammers and all the machinery required to drive the modern scientific method , moral is to reuse what others created or plain out steal it if you can

If you search around there's still a lot of job openings in every industry, even with the recent layoffs. The demand is still high, so fortunately if you enjoy the work there's plenty of it to do. Good luck and thanks for watching!

I think the problem with roadmaps is everyone's road to working professionally as a game dev or creating their own games is different. I'll certainly try to make content that supplements everyone's journey, though! Thanks for watching :)

@@SyncMain thank you for reply me,because i confusing where must i start and the step by step to learn it

I talk about AI at the end of this video.

If you haven't learned the basics of the language and gotten code in tutorials/free lessons compiling then start there. Not everyone goes through "tutorial hell," that's a symptom of people who have gotten so used to following instructions in tutorials that they don't know how to go write code on their own, even though they have the foundational knowledge.

@@SyncMain thankyou for clearing my doubt :)

I’ve definitely had trouble with bad documentation. One time, when Unreal Engine 4 was new, I helped a VFX artist track down a bug that wound up being a blueprint shader node that had “Degrees” in the name and “Degrees” labeled in the output, but after debugging it we saw the values were in radians. An easy thing to fix, but cmon Epic! Thanks for watching!