UPDATE: Added Odin Project to the list
UPDATE: Added School of Game Design
Tabe of Contents
- Programming Resources
- Game Development
Don’t panic you are not in a Zombie 🧟♀️ apocalypse yet. I understand some countries have lockdowns and some of us here are on 2-3 weeks stay home quarantine.
This would be a good time to upgrade one skills and re-skills, I am currently working as a UI Developer and I can’t thank enough the creators of online learning platforms that helped me pick skills up such as coding and design. There are other platforms that help me keep up to date with my CG Skills in animation.
Learning Resources for Programming
Free Code Camp
There are free lectures on their YouTube Channel and their platform has an interactive coding tutorial assignment section that guides beginners for the basics of HTML JavaScript to advance coding concepts.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coronavirus-academy/
Scrimba
This platform has evolved and what Inlike about it is the interactive Lectures it provides you can play with the code during the lecture to see the changes made.
There are both free and paid courses. I did a bit of React for this site.
Odin Project
The Odin Project is a Norse Theme web development course. You can sign up for free. Teach mostly with the about front end and Ruby on Rails.
Added: Traversy Media a free YouTube resource to learn coding for web development has good advice too. He also did a new video on staying productive during this season of quarantine.
For programming motivation Check out Stefan Mischook Youtube channel and Dev.to Articles.
Game Development
Unity Learn Premium (Free till Jun 2020)
Unity Learning has recently opened their Learning premium resources for free till Jun 2020 during this peried of Covid.
Start Learning Unity 3D Here: https://learn.unity.com/
Via https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/03/20/Unity-Learn-Premium-For-Free.aspx
Unreal Engine Learning
Learn Unreal Engine with their free courses. Get to know topics like Architecture production…
You can view the tutorials here: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses
School of Game Design (Udemy Paid)
https://www.udemy.com/user/schoolofgamedesign/
I have found that the school of game discount having a discount in their courses on Idemy. Previously it was a course you could take with them. But it is now on Udemy at a Discount.
The content focuses on Unity but the principles can be applied elsewhere. Note the videos were recorded in Unity5 but most of the programming
They also included Modeling in Maya and 3ds Max and some concept art lessons into the course as well.
I have went through parts of these course to learn game development and found them useful they cover mostly the production side of things.
