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New Video Tutorials for Beginners

Last post 07-12-2008 11:05 PM by Glenn Wilson. 4 replies.
  • 04-19-2008 3:31 AM

    New Video Tutorials for Beginners

    Hello All,

    I would like to formally present to the XNA community a new set of six video tutorials that are designed for beginner programmers. These tutorials were the senior project for myself and another student during our last year at college.

    The tutorials start off with drawing a simple cube , and move on through movement, input devices, texturing, collision detection, and sound. They are presented in a video format, along with the code projects, and accompanying write up with tips and tricks learned along the way.

    The goal behind these tutorials was not just to show you what the code does, but to explain how the code really works, so that people are able to actually incorporate the code into their own projects, and not simply end up with some hack and slash job that you get with extensive cut-and-pasting.

    The tutorials build upon themselves, and because of how they are structured they promote a firm understanding of Object Oriented design.

    the tutorials can be found: here!

    Please post any comments/critiques/questions here, or you can email me tavataar@gmail.com

    Thanks,
    Matt
  • 04-19-2008 6:20 AM In reply to

    Re: New Tutorials for Beginners

    website doesn't work in IE7.

    navbar (image below fencer) does not display.

     

    Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the best! Wisdom is the domain of the Wis (which is extinct).
  • 04-19-2008 1:45 PM In reply to

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    thanks for pointing that out Stainless, thats not the Navbar, just an odd leftover that shouldnt be there. i wonder why IE is seeing it when Firefox doesnt. time to do a little investigating : )
  • 07-12-2008 4:02 PM In reply to

    Re: New Video Tutorials for Beginners

    Hey, these tutorials are really helpful! Thanks for posting them!

    Okay, so maybe I'm a bit biased, as I am the other student that worked on them. Matt and I worked hard on these videos, and would really appreciate any feedback. We tried for a good mix between funny and informative, and we shot for an audience that has some knowledge of programming but is new to XNA.

    Let us know how we did! Are the videos helpful? Not serious enough? To limited in scope? We chose a unique format, and I would really like to know how successful it was. Plus, I could not possibly justifying spending the time to making new tutorials if no one is watching the old, which is a shame because I really enjoyed making the originals.

    Good luck to all of those entering in the next Dream. Build. Play. competition.

    Thanks,

     James

  • 07-12-2008 11:05 PM In reply to

    Re: New Video Tutorials for Beginners

     

    Just downloading them now, will give them a look over the week for you.

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