Mentor for Design and Programming

Is anybody willing to teach me how to design and program flash, and java games.

There are hundreds of tutorials out there, just search for em and start learning.

Post questions on this forum.

Yes….. that all helps but I would also like somebody to guide me through the process…

I don’t think anybody would like to exclusively guide you through all of it unless you’re paying them to do so.

My suggestion would be that you find a series of tutorials and just try to get started.

Then when you run into trouble, you can try to ask people on forums such as these – People are happy to help you out with more specific problems that wont take too much time :)

Originally posted by Chris2fly:

Is anybody willing to teach me how to design and program flash, and java games.

When I first wanted to learn as3, this is exactly what I asked.
School/college/other parts of society conditions us to believe the best/only/easiest/most effective way of learning is having someone show us knowledge and quiz us on it.
You won’t find someone whos going to mentor you unless your willing to pay them for it. Paying them more than their day job is going to pay them.
The best way you can learn how to do what you want to do is to teach yourself. Its going to be a very long road, and theres going to be a lot of struggling my friend.
But the end result is beautiful.

The thing with asking someone to exclusively teach you how to program is like asking them to teach you how to speak a foreign language; it mostly just about committing some time to studying the material, and then regularly practicing what you learned. It’s a process that requires a few weeks of time to get the basic foundation, so a potential teacher would want some compensation for all that dedicated time.

Alternatively, even better than bite-size tutorials, there are comprehensive books that you can find (on Amazon, for example) that start at square one, and build up your foundation through detailed and beginner-friendly explanations.
For example, here’s the book that taught me ActionScript 3 when I first started programming: Foundation Game Design With Flash

Getting started with ActionScript or Java isn’t something so complicated that it requires a teacher. The concepts are logical, and a good book will explain them thoroughly.
Then, if you happen to have any questions on specific topics, you can ask here on the forum.

Originally posted by Khronosis:

The thing with asking someone to exclusively teach you how to program is like asking them to teach you how to speak a foreign language; it mostly just about committing some time to studying the material, and then regularly practicing what you learned. It’s a process that requires a few weeks of time to get the basic foundation, so a potential teacher would want some compensation for all that dedicated time.

Alternatively, even better than bite-size tutorials, there are comprehensive books that you can find (on Amazon, for example) that start at square one, and build up your foundation through detailed and beginner-friendly explanations.
For example, here’s the book that taught me ActionScript 3 when I first started programming: Foundation Game Design With Flash

Getting started with ActionScript or Java isn’t something so complicated that it requires a teacher. The concepts are logical, and a good book will explain them thoroughly.
Then, if you happen to have any questions on specific topics, you can ask here on the forum.

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A book is definitely the best first step. The book that got me through the foundation and thats still teaching me to this day is a little… comprehensive.
Essential ActionScript 3.0

Do you know any other good AS3 books? I myself am looking for one, but I’m not sure which one to get off Amazon. Could you suggest one besides the one you linked? i’m not sure if it’s right for me.

I’ve been happy for my

Not the best book for complete beginners though.

I can really recommend a book on design patterns. Progamming is more about logic than a language. I’ve coded in multiple languages and still pick up these books from time to time. Books on languages are gathering dust most of the time.

You should definitly check this one out

Along with a book on your language of choice you should be set to go. The advantage of starting with a book is that they give you a structure instead of a big jungle of tutorials. I find that tutorials are best for specific questions. If you come at a point in your book where you just don’t get it with the material in the book, look up a tutorial on it.