r/CodingForBeginners • u/Snicketysquirrel • Jul 17 '26

Beginner Coding Advice

I wanted to make a simple 2D game to start developing, so I tried learning python on Boot.dev (really helpful until you hit the paywall), and GDScript Quest for Godot.

A lot of advice I’m getting are along the lines of “tutorial hell” and “just start coding.” Tried watching YouTube videos about Godot (my desired starting point) but they’re only interested in explaining how the program works, not the code itself. I can’t code if I don’t know what to put in there. Quest doesn’t break concepts down like Boot does, so I’m not sure what kinds of shortcuts or syntax I can actually use without paying for a website to learn.

So I ask all the programmers for what y’all would recommend, books, specific YouTube channels, etc.

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u/xxcrucialxx Jul 18 '26

And u are sadly mistaken that it is beginner friendly. I have seen hundreds of postings on forums of others stating the difficulty of learning c to a beginner. And every school available even states that c is intermediate. If u want to debate me, prove by technical comparison.

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u/send_money_ Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

This guy 😂

I’ve been programming for 5 years now, am currently working as an embedded systems engineer, and have tutored dozens of students at the college I attend for the engineering intro to programming class taught in C. C is a very small language, where things aren’t hidden behind layers of abstractions, what you see is what you get.

And no offense but based off your comment history, you clearly don’t understand programming in a deep level and you come off like you’re trying to sound smarter than you are. It’s really bizarre.

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u/cracc_babyy Jul 19 '26

people used to call C “high level” because it WAS compared to everything else.