Typical noob questions, but who wasn't noob at least once?:)

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

First off, this is my first post, so I’ll just head out and introduce myself.

I’ll almost finish my masters degree in computer sience, I come from small, but very beautiful county called Croatia :slight_smile:

Now, I just hurd about Corona yesterday, and tough I’ll give it a try.
No, I have no prior background in gaming programming what so ever. But I do know a little C#, great deal of PHP, HTML and MySql.

But consider me as a complete programming noob, coz in my experience, that’s just the best way I can learn :wink:

Now, I have some questions:
Where to start learning Corona? From here: http://developer.anscamobile.com/resources/docs ?

Or just go off and study Lua for a while? But imho, best way to learn Lua and Corona is to get my hands dirty in Corona itself.

My point is, can Corona&Lua be learned just by examples and documentation from this site? Or do I need to go even further?

For my starting point I wanted to create a football/soccer manager game. Nothing fancy, just to learn as I go.

Any advice on the matter would be really helpful and appreciated.
Thx in advance :slight_smile:

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#2

Hello there.

I would recommend the link you posted, also http://www.lua.org/pil/ will give you great insight into the lua language.

After that I would mess about with the included sample code that ships with Corona and experiment adding/changing things in those samples as you learn lua then when you feel comfortable enough, start that game.

Tips for your game would be to learn about databases (probably sql lite) as it would be essential for a football management game.

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#3

http://www.learningcorona.com/

techority.com

bunch of stuff out there.
I started from NOTHING in June 2011, no coding experience at all! I tore apart examples and spent a TON OF TIME on the API

http://developer.anscamobile.com/resources/apis

The API listing is your best buddy! Also, techority.com is great, and there is a series for noobies on there. I would check it out.
Basically, I went from barely getting images to show on screen, to a very complex 38,000 lines of code masterpiece (will be about 55,000 when I am done I estimate) that has complex physics, scoring, twitter, facebook, etc all from knowing nothing to this!

Exciting times

ng.

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#4

Hi mileni171, in addition to what Danny suggested, you may want to pick and choose some of the tutorials listed here:

http://www.learningcorona.com/

Cheers,
Naomi

Edit: Nick beat me to it. Cheers. [import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 18373 reply_id: 70432[/import]

#5

I personally have never had to look anywhere outside of this website for what I need before releasing my game. The forums are a huge help. The only issue I find is the forum search is pretty hit or miss. [import]uid: 31262 topic_id: 18373 reply_id: 70436[/import]

#6

Thank you all for your replies. I have a lot of MySql experience, and some experience on MS Sql.

Tried to search, but found no results on that matter. Does Corona support those?

And the from the time i wrote my post on this topic, till now, I am willing to learn, but I have responsobilities as well. Atm I’m a php/c# coder, and I have to do a lot of work I really don’t want to do, just to make money.

So I looked at a lot of game engines, and decided with two of them, Corona included of course. I have a month time to see what corona can offer, so I really appreciate your help.

Thx again (Y). [import]uid: 107783 topic_id: 18373 reply_id: 70458[/import]

#7

I’m not sure if this helps, but here’s a link to SQLite3 documentation:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/index/sqlite3

Naomi [import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 18373 reply_id: 70463[/import]

#8

I assumed I can’t use MS Sql, SQL lite won’t be a problem as well.
Thx for the reply :wink: [import]uid: 107783 topic_id: 18373 reply_id: 70467[/import]