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TIL a free phone game taught me more about loops than my $40 online course
I dropped 40 bucks on an online Python course in January and quit it after two weeks because I kept falling asleep during the lessons. Then my kid got me hooked on one of those tower defense games where you gotta set up rules for your little guys, like 'if enemy gets close, then shoot.' One night it just clicked that I'd been writing the same kind of logic on my phone for hours without even thinking about it, and the course had buried that same idea under twenty minutes of jargon. So I opened the game's little scripting box, changed one number from 10 to 15 to fix my turret range, and watched it actually work. That was the first time code did what I wanted, and it happened in a dumb pay to win app, not a classroom. Now I'm three weeks into a free set of lessons on YouTube and it's sticking way better because I keep making tiny games instead of watching someone else type. What finally made it click for you, a project, a tutor, or some random thing?
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the_joseph9d ago
Ever try breaking stuff instead of watching?
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