Not impressed with corona sdk beginer rants

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi I’m not that happy at all it is stated that corona sdk is suppose to be easy in creating drag and drop games and makes you think that’s all you need

but from what I have seen this is not the case . The marketing strangely is a bit misleading to say the least even so after all this

At least they should of made an effect of having a properly selected tutorials to those new in the game of using corona sdk for the first time

I mean I was going to be willing to purchase but I have now strongly changed by mind

I did go to various places including corona sdk beginer tutorials page but hey they all lead to some one else producing the tutorials and even the official corona sdk tutorials on YouTube are way to difficult to grasp how the hell is someone with no knowledge at all of any programming suppose to follow them.

At least make an effect corona sdk before everyone starts jumping ship I mean just look at the tutorials you expect me to follow

http://corona.techority.com/2011/01/12/corona-for-newbies-part-1/

You guys call this a beginer tutorial I don’t think so having to look through someone’s code just to use a drag and frog interface? I see no sense do you?
Then this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voq1rMy9elU. Does this guy not know he is presenting corona sdk to total newbies what’s that about function x and y position pardon?

Next this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcRaabRAtXo. Both files let you config? Pardon config what ? What the hell is lua anyway are you telling me I have to find out what lua is a learn lua with the poorly tutorials around the web

Take this for example http://bitcast-r.v1.iad1.bitgravity.com/infiniteskills/iskills-media/coronasdk-demo/0201.mp4. What the hell is foo same course goes on about vent handles pardon lol

It all sounds like total garbage and giberish for a total beginer if you ask me how do you expect them to learn this corona folks
I have come here as a last result from some kind folks on here if they can at least point new beginers in the light of the right direction as yo must understand comming from a similar position that I don’t know code I don’t understand any of the tutorials what order should they be in

Why are the tutorials from third party’s and why are the other marshal language

Any one video tutorials would be better after all who wants to sieve through someone code just to learn a tutorial

Many thanks for reading this and your time please suggestions anyone as I think this post would be great for anyone else needing the same advice as I am sure quite a lot of people agree with me from what I have read in various forums and from people talking about corona sdk

Anyone care to jump in?
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#2

It sounds like some of your confusion/frustration might be because you seem to not have a good grasp on programming in general. Corona has a great community and many community members like to help Corona in many different ways. This includes posting tutorials and examples. This is why tutorials are often hosted on community members sites as well as the coronalabs.com site.You mention techority.com (this is Peach’s site), if you spent any time in the forms or on the site, you should have noticed how important and helpful Peach and others are to this community.

I remember first starting out with Corona and techority.com taught me so much. Take a look at the guided tour for the Corona API reference (http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/06/19/guided-tour-of-coronas-api-reference/) this will help you to understand how to read the API documentation and get a better grasp on the language.

If you prefer to learn from reading books or taking a course here is some nice resources to get you started: http://www.coronalabs.com/resources/books/

Here is the official Corona Guide: (http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/index.html)
It contains everything from a 5 minute guide to Corona, Quick Start Guide all the way to Advanced Programming Techniques.

To get you started I would recommend looking at the following:
-Corona in 5 minutes (http://developer.coronalabs.com/content/application-programming-guide-tutorial-introduction)
-Quick Start Guide (http://developer.coronalabs.com/resources/corona-quick-start-guide)
-Getting Started with Corona (http://developer.coronalabs.com/content/getting-started-corona-game-edition)
-Basic Programming Techniques (http://developer.coronalabs.com/content/introduction)

Also I noticed in your post that you mention “Drag and Drop” games, if you are wanting to create games with minimal programming using Corona it is possible. You just need to leverage some of the great 3rd party tools to do so (http://www.coronalabs.com/resources/3rd-party-tools-and-services/).

Welcome to the community and sorry your first experience was a little frustrating for ya. :slight_smile: [import]uid: 58885 topic_id: 29624 reply_id: 118955[/import]

#3

Thank you m going through the helpful guides you pointed to now so thanks this is the starting point That was needed best direction the main page of corona tutorials was too confusing this is a much better layout thankyou [import]uid: 169835 topic_id: 29624 reply_id: 119073[/import]

#4

No problems, just post to the forms if you run into any other issues and I’m sure someone will help you out. Hopefully you get a good start and get to see how enjoyable Corona and their community really is. :slight_smile:

Wishing you the best codeacademy! [import]uid: 58885 topic_id: 29624 reply_id: 119082[/import]

#5

Thanks yep your all really helpful I have combined this topic n one and have thank you in this post

http://developer.coronalabs.com/forum/2012/08/08/not-impressed-corona-sdk-beginner-rants#comment-119099

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