Hello!! Here are some of my personal suggestions on how to not only see if you like programming, but imo the best way to get into it! This is not the most optimal list, it focuses on enjoyment and learning how to solve common logic puzzles that present themselves in programming.
🌟are resources I've personally have experience with ⭐are resources I've heard are great
These are fantastic for that initial exploring of the specific kind of logic puzzles programming gives you. These games wont teach you how to program in any specific language, but they help to reinforce the skills you'll be learning as you continue on!!
Play infinifactory, then Human Resource Machine, and then explore the Zachtronic selection in any order you'd like!
While many of Zachtronic games lean closer to actual programming than most, it still stands that these are fantastic games !
Infinifactory (steam, gog(drm free)) is by far the most beginner friendly. Think Minecraft redstone/minecarts but with a jetpack!!
My suggested playing order is
- 🌟Infinifactory
- Spacechem
- Opus Magnum
- 🌟Exapunks
- 🌟Shenzen I/O
- TIS-100 ((HARD MODE))
steam App Store Google Play switch
After infinifactory I suggest Human Resource Machine! This is a little less abstracted than Infinifactory, but still has a great presentation and art style!
This actually is an abstracted version of assembly, but it's still a good little introduction, but don't think you'll need to beat it first!!
website If you want to try out programing but don't want to start in a real language yet, try out scratch! Its a drag and drop programming language designed to make it easy for kids to learn programming, but adults also love it too.
These languages I selected have various reasons why they could/should be among your first! You don't have to learn all these before moving onto others, but I def recommend at least really learning my first pick...
Go for python, take a peak at processing, Javascript or Rust once you're comfortable!
tech.io codewars grasshoppper devhints.io ⭐
Coding Challenges 🌟Advent of code
Website Hands down my biggest recommendation for your first real programming language. One reason is that it teaches you psuedocode implicitly, which is great in itself, but it's also extremely popular, and the syntax is stripped away so much it makes it easier to code with.
If you want to hit the ground running and make a whole game in python, I suggest using Renpy! to make a visual novel!
Python for beginners - freeCodeCamp
python for everybody learn python 3 with jupyter notebooks edublocks - This is a bridge between Scratch and Python! exercism
Godot!!! Amazing game engine GDScript is very similar to python, so I recommend that!
- Generative Programming art (not ai)
- Book on generative art
- A great book showing how you can use programming to create art
- processing
- I would recommend after python
- Book on generative art
- Javascript
- Rust
- obsidian
- https://youtu.be/OUrOfIqvGS4
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