I feel inclined to provide a little constructive criticism based on my experience so far with Corona. No doubt it’s a fantastic program. However, I’ve yet to come across a video tutorial that a new user can actually follow. It’s impossible to follow along with someone explaining a bunch of random code on the screen without first going through the basics. At least provide us with video tutorials explaining the basics from the beginning with detail. Even a well written text-based tutorial would do! Can someone point me to such a source? The actual instruction manual on the site is too complicated. And by the way, this is coming from someone with 4 years of college study in Computer Programming. [import]uid: 12649 topic_id: 4606 reply_id: 304606[/import]
Well in the Docs section of Resources the first link is “Corona in 5 minutes.” If you haven’t seen that already then start there. I didn’t even bother to read the entire thing, I just skimmed it after “Hello World”; that along with some general Lua resources I found online got me familiar enough with the code so that the various Sample Apps would make sense and then I’ve mostly been learning from those.
Here’s one basic cheat-sheet for Lua’s syntax:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1FzdK7-woueGMxjnqPY3bjeFAu8b6mCgndui2NlwPu3s&pli=1
And if that isn’t enough, here are a couple more basic tutorials I looked at early on:
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/corona/corona-sdk-eight-ball/
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/corona/corona-sdk_game-development_basketball/
Really this seems like an odd complaint considering the avalanche of tutorials that comes up when you google “corona tutorial.” [import]uid: 12108 topic_id: 4606 reply_id: 14533[/import]
Thanks for the resources. Quite honestly, when you responded, I was going through “Corona in 5 minutes”, which I had just discovered and hadn’t seen before for some reason. [import]uid: 12649 topic_id: 4606 reply_id: 14535[/import]
have you seen the game in 8 minutes tutorials
with 4 years of college study in Computer Programming you should catch on very quickly i only have self taught vb experience from 10 years ago and caught on in only 3 weeks [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 4606 reply_id: 14537[/import]
Yes, I found the game in 8 minute tutorials the most useful thus far.
I may have forgotten to mention that my 4 years of college experience was from 1998-2002.
I’m quite able to catch on quick but I just wasn’t looking in the right places. [import]uid: 12649 topic_id: 4606 reply_id: 14538[/import]