Pro tip: Ditch the coding bootcamp and just make a stupid game first

I tried following those structured lessons and got stuck on boring exercises. Then I made a simple rock paper scissors game in JavaScript, and everything made sense. Now I tell every new coder to start with a fun project, not a syllabus. You learn by fixing your own mistakes, not by memorizing rules. Trust me, build something silly and the rest will follow.

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william3203d ago

Try building a text-based adventure game next. You'll run into problems with user input and game logic, but fixing those teaches you more about functions and conditionals than any tutorial. I spent months on courses before making a dumb dice roller and finally understanding variables. Just keep it simple and break things on purpose.

henrypatel3d ago

When you talk about running into user input problems with the text adventure game, what was the actual fix that made it click? Like were you trying to store player choices and had to rework how your functions handled that data?

parker2523d ago

I wasted like six hours trying to make a fancy command parser before I realized I just needed to strip whitespace from the input. Sometimes the fix is stupidly simple, you know?