Best Game Programing Course Online?

BradleyWascher

I understand polycount is mostly artist types (myself included) but I was wondering if anyone ever took a games programming course online that they felt was worth the money or at the least wasn't a scam. I'm just trying to expand myself and was looking to find either a c# unity or c++ unreal directed programming course. An entry level course with an actual instructor would be best. Thanks for any and all leads. Cheers!

Wesley

You can get access to PluralSight tutorials through Digital Tutoris. Might be worthwhile, getting both art and programming with one sub...

MikeF

If you're down with learning c# using unity i'd say just check out some of the official tutorials on their site. Its a great starting point and there's a ton of tutorials on youtube to supplement what unity provides. Just don't do like i did and start with JavaScript, stick with c# and your life will be much easier heheheh

haiddasalami

Been meaning to check out PluralSight Wesley. Any good so far? Not sure about Unity but dont think theres a lot of online courses for something like DirectX. Might be better to just get something like a book/series on C++ get that down then move on to something like Frank Luna's intro books.

Ben Apuna

If you want to get "down the metal" with C-like C++ then check out Handmade Hero. (Video archive | Forum). Casey Muratori does live coding streams every weekday on Twitch with a Q&A session at the end.

It's by far the best game development series that I've ever come across.

Need to learn C? Then check out Learn C The Hard Way. It's quite good though not as exciting as making games.

Leviculas

There's some good C++ tutorials here that are worth checking out https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCL5m1_llmeiAdZMo_ZanIvg

See here for a description http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2eb5d8/copenglsdl_game_engine_tutorials_for_an_absolute/

Target_Renegade

For ease, you could enter with Unity using Javascript, for a bit more, learn C#, Dependency Injection, IoC. I first made Unity games with javascript, then got my first job as a junior Obj-C programmer. Now I deal with C#, jquery, JS, CSS, HTML, SQL and client-server relationships.

There is not one right way to go about it, find the most accessible way in to learn. The reason I became a programmer, is that to get into the art side of the industry, I decided to make games to show my technical knowledge. Now I can actually make them as well as doing the art side.

Edit:

Try and learn O.O.P - Unity makes it easy for you, but even within that, there are a lot of extra complex things that are possible.

Finalhart

I've had good experiences with 3dBuzz before. This one looks pretty good, not really game focused tutorials but the thing is you don't need to learn something like "Programming for games", you learn how to program and then you can program whatever thing you want.

http://www.3dbuzz.com/training/view/software-engineering-in-cpp/software-engineering

LMP

I found the tutorial videos of ChiliTomatoNoodle Youtube quite easy to get into, he might take a while to explain things, but I've never really felt lost when watching his tutorials, he starts the basics, but also gets you into the action and starting to make stuff happen pretty quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChiliTomatoNoodle/playlists