| Programming Videos [message #4] |
Mon, 18 August 2014 20:56  |
Dagen
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Registered: August 2014
Location: United States
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A while ago I was going to do a set of "Crash Course" (fast and intense introduction) videos about programming on the Apple IIgs, particularly about games. I did kind of do one video about my dev stack and how to make a skeleton System 16 application, but I think it was too crazy for newcomers. Now I think I am going to start over and begin a very introductory video series about programming the Apple IIgs, starting with some really simple stuff like changing the border color and switching banks in the monitor. Eventually, I do want it to get into more advanced topics, but I think it needs to start from a friendlier, immediate hands-on, approach that is in the spirit of Apple II hackers.
I am ready to start with this new idea in a week or two, but I'd love to get some feedback on what kind of lessons you think would help attract people to our beloved platform. Any ideas? Would anyone else want to make similar videos as part of a collaborative series? I could manage editing them all for a consistent presentation style, but that's probably not very important. I'd like this to be something that is super easy for Apple II users to understand, but potentially also as a way for people to quickly get up to speed if coming from programming on other 65xx based systems.
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| Re: Programming Videos [message #6 is a reply to message #5] |
Tue, 19 August 2014 15:48  |
mcpderez
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OK, here is Photon of Scoopex's first video in the series (short and simple): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10
And to get an idea of how it has progressed later in the series (which get longer and more complex), here's #22 about a bounce effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiVDxt3oks4
Along the way there was a detour away from the code editor into using a paint application for creating the graphics used as assets in the program. Growing up, I personally skipped from Apple IIe and Applesoft to Macintosh with Lightspeed Pascal, so not assuming familiarity with common IIgs content (or resource) creation applications would be good. Those who are familiar can skip over.
I would imagine a IIgs programming series would probably start similarly along with what basic Tools to load. IIRC, something similar was in Dagen's KansasFest 2013 presentation.
One thing I like is watching Photon's iterative approach, including not always having everything exactly right. So, if you have some spectacular crashes or funky dialogs and how to fix them, that's good too. It takes a little longer to get to the end result, but teaches the debugging process as well.
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| Re: Programming Videos [message #34 is a reply to message #28] |
Sun, 05 October 2014 02:23 |
Oz
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Registered: October 2014
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Dagen,
You should create one Topic per video so people could interact with you on the topic. The Youtube comments are not always the right place to add extra information due to the lack of rich text (at least here you can publish as picture the scheme available in the video or also post the source code using Courrier font).
Olivier
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When I get back I have a list of improvements to make. But the main three changes will be 1) I'll start posting all code used in each video online (probably via GitHub) and 2) I will repeatedly state something like, "You can ask questions or join the conversation on twitter or by emailing us.. [give twitter/email addresses] ... and of course join us on apple2.gs forums"... and 3) I'll be trying to put the videos in their own place on here so we can have the full conversation with the ability to post media/code more easily.
