Is Gideros for beginners?

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• amin13a Member

  June 2015

  Yes it is.
  if you have some programming background (like me) about one month.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  June 2015 Accepted Answer

  In my opinion Gideros has one of the simplest and cleanest API: you just need a few lines of lua code to actually 'see' your app beginning to run. With such a fast feedback, beginners can learn and evolve rapidly. Its pretty much like learning 'BASIC' language.
  
  It may even be simpler to learn for beginner than for more experienced programmers since lua is so permissive that it can mislead those coming from strongly typed languages (C, Java, etc). Has seen on the forum, there are few common pitfalls, mostly regarding lua language or platforms restrictions more than Gideros itself:
  - the difference between (.) and (:) call syntax on table functions
  - number/string conversion (or lack of automatic one)
  - size of textures and memory usage (platform limit)
  
  With the help of examples, you can get into the matter of actually coding yourself in less than one hour. Thats what I liked with Gideros.
  
  I tried Unity before Gideros and couldn't understand how to actually code some behavior even after 5 hours of learning/following tutorials. I guess unity is more a tool for graphists than programmers, but at some point every game/app need a little coding so I believe it is better if it is exposed to the user right from the start.
  
  Just my opinion
  

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• mejon Member

  July 2015

  thanks for the answers

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