First off I’d like to say hello and thank you in advance to those who will respond. I’ve wanted to make an app for quite a while now. I have a new 27" mac and photoshop cs 5. My art skill are pretty good but I have no coding experience. I am not sure where or how to begin coding an application with Corona. I learn pretty fast but don’t know where to begin. How does coding in lua work as far as knowing what to code and where to place different codes and commands? Is there some sort of guide? How long did it take you to start getting the hang of coding with corona and where did you learn how to code? Also, are APIs the codes for certain actions and features? If so, where are those used and what kind of code goes with them? Sorry if I sound ignorant, I just don’t really know how to go about this yet. Thanks for the help, Joseph [import]uid: 202772 topic_id: 33795 reply_id: 333795[/import]
I followed this video and with no coding experience ever before, it all made perfect sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMqAzp8bJ_M – part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idrug4vHSgg – part 2
They are both 8 min I believe, but it was really helpful for me. After understanding it a little you can already kinda mess around in corona. Depending what type of game you want to make, go follow a tutorial on that type of game and learn more in that area. Shouldn’t take to long to get you started with easy stuff.
Best of luck [import]uid: 77199 topic_id: 33795 reply_id: 134326[/import]
Greetings and welcome to Corona!
Another good place to start is out Tech Tutorials section. This features a large collection of resources and tutorials from around the web (and from Corona Labs itself). I do suggest, however, that you learn basic Lua before tackling sample code, because otherwise you’ll get confused and frustrated if things don’t work as you imagined. Lua is a fairly straightforward language and it doesn’t require hardcore programming skills to get started with it.
http://www.coronalabs.com/resources/tutorials/
Best of luck,
Brent Sorrentino [import]uid: 200026 topic_id: 33795 reply_id: 134352[/import]
I followed this video and with no coding experience ever before, it all made perfect sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMqAzp8bJ_M – part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idrug4vHSgg – part 2
They are both 8 min I believe, but it was really helpful for me. After understanding it a little you can already kinda mess around in corona. Depending what type of game you want to make, go follow a tutorial on that type of game and learn more in that area. Shouldn’t take to long to get you started with easy stuff.
Best of luck [import]uid: 77199 topic_id: 33795 reply_id: 134326[/import]
Greetings and welcome to Corona!
Another good place to start is out Tech Tutorials section. This features a large collection of resources and tutorials from around the web (and from Corona Labs itself). I do suggest, however, that you learn basic Lua before tackling sample code, because otherwise you’ll get confused and frustrated if things don’t work as you imagined. Lua is a fairly straightforward language and it doesn’t require hardcore programming skills to get started with it.
http://www.coronalabs.com/resources/tutorials/
Best of luck,
Brent Sorrentino [import]uid: 200026 topic_id: 33795 reply_id: 134352[/import]