That sounds like a specific issue you’re running into while using powershell. I’m not sure what specifically you’re trying to do, but maybe you’re trying to run something that is meant to be run from command prompt? Or it could be you need a powershell module installed. Hope you find a solution! Thanks for watching

Programmers aren't keen on helping others learn or enjoy their art and especially don't like offering their services which leads to more people needing to learn, in isolation, in order to create something they want.

Not my advice but thanks for watching!

It doesn’t matter what language you start with, depending on your goals. If someone really didn’t know what kind of programming they wanted to do, I might nudge them in the direction of something like Python or C#. But if someone has a specific goal like “I want to work as a graphics programmer on video games at a AAA studio” I’m going to tell them to start with C++. They can learn all of the hard stuff later, or as they go. I disagree that the language has any more gotchas than other similarly powerful languages, and they all have their trade offs, but there’s no perquisite language to learning C++, and there’s plenty of great things people can do with it and that will be the case for years to come. Thanks for watching!

I am! I got a cheap one on Amazon a few years ago that’s held up surprisingly well, and I’ve been fortunate to have had standing desks at all of my jobs for the last ~8 years or so. I only use it for an hour or two every day, and I otherwise try to take breaks every hour or so to stand up, get some water, and sometimes stretch. I have back issues from an old weight lifting injury, but ironically when I have a regular routine of lifting it hurts less, probably because my muscles are able to support me more.

I forgot to mention it’s a cheap adjustable standing desk. Most of the time it’s in the sitting position

Use whatever language you want! Thanks for watching!

Now that you're feeling comfortable with writing a bit of code, try picking one of those languages and go deep with it. It sounds like it might be C# for you with Unity, and if you can start making games in Unity with your knowledge you'll find new areas pretty quickly that you need to learn. One of the benefits is you can start creating small games while you do that, and games are useful! Thanks for watching and good luck!

@@SyncMain Thank you so much 🎮

You only get so far with tutorials and the like. When you're tasked with writing something to someone else's requirement (as in a work situation), you are forced to be creative and come up with solutions to problems you wouldn't have foreseen. For me, that's when I started to become a 'real' programmer.

@@richardbradley3684 I haven't watch specific tutorials like on programming languages because I have enrolled in offline course for that 😂, but yes I understand and respect what you just said, and I'll try to work on mini projects to understand the programming in depth even tho it's just my hobby I'm not doing programming as professional.

Depending on the kind of work you want to do can change the specifics of the answer, but I'd recommend you pick one or two companies that you really want to work for and look at their job listings' requirements. Companies like Naughty Dog, Ready at Dawn, Sony Santa Monica, and others use their own engines so their requirements will be focused around things like C++ knowledge, 3D math (vectors, quaternions, matrices, trigonometry, and how it all ties together for game logic, assets, and/or rendering depending on the role.) One of the benefits of something like Unreal or Godot is you can look under the hood and get a better understanding of what the functions you're calling are actually doing, or you can eschew the helper functions that exist and write your own for practice. One example is instead of calling Unreal's FMath::Dot function to get the dot product, write your own dot product function and understand not only how its written but how and why it's used. In the real world, you're more than likely just going to use the existing function and it wouldn't make sense to write your own, but it's good to know that you could write it if you had to. One of the best aides in my early learning was interviewing at game companies and getting feedback when things didn't go well, so if you're starting to feel ready, go ahead and start applying, figure out how to get and do interviews (a skill on its own), ask a lot of questions, and be open and receptive to feedback when its given to you. Good luck!

@@SyncMain Thanks man i really appreciate for the answer. What about the projects i need to do for strong resume? Like if i go for Unreal then again i stick with engine and AAA companies had their own. So what should i be doing? Like begin with Raylib, Sdl2 or etc? Or go for Unreal with C++ for projects? I cant make my own engine for small projects because making an engine is whole different level for beginners and takes years to develop.

The difference is C++ isn't a proprietary language, and has much wider adoption and proven use cases. Plus it's still getting updates, C++ 26 is coming!

My bad! I'm going to rewatch this now and add links to anything I talk about.

Thanks for watching and thanks for the feedback!

@@SyncMain Its really a minor thing, the tips and advice you give through your videos is amazing for someone like me. Keep up the great work!

@@chupavi89 Thanks so much! Always looking for ways to improve and I appreciate the encouragement 🙂

I did this in my high school computer science class once. I'd been taught that being concise was a good thing, and I realized I could fit all of the logic to a test question on a single line! I tested the code, and it worked! My teacher just wrote a giant "NO!" in red ink on the printed test. It may have been correct, but he couldn't read it. Even when I looked at it a couple days after I'd written it, it looked like absolute nonsense. So I do think there's a balance to strike 🙂 I will say, Javascript is regularly 'minified' before deployment to reduce the total number of bits someone has to download for their browser to run the website's code. This cuts out all of the whitespace including newline characters, and reduces the variable names to be as small as few characters as possible. So it may be good for computers for interpreted languages, but bad for the human eye. Thanks for watching and thanks for the fun question!

@@SyncMain My claim to fame is doing some coding for a few weeks when the top gun movie came out in 1986. One guy in your comments section said he's starting to code at the age of 50 ! I was very proud of his comments. Please make a video about the advantages & disadvantages of AI from your perspective and I just wanted to thank you for your very generous reply.

@@Matlockization That's awesome! I watched Top Gun with my family recently (my first time) and they love it. I made a video where I commented on AI at the end (it's the "Tutorial Hell" video if you care to look it up.) Ultimately I think it's VERY cool, but LLMs are mostly impractical and are a misstep on the way to AGI. I think anyone (of any age) could elevate their circumstances by learning to write code, in spite of a future where programmers possibly don't exist, because between now and then they could earn salaries they previously couldn't, and will be better suited to pivot into a new career/specialty when the computers come to take our jobs (if it happens.) There's even people in that category that will create something new and become infinitely more wealthy than the programmers who do their work for others. If current-gen AI were more useful it would make my job easier, but unfortunately I just think it's not quite there (co-pilot really killed it for me.) My goal in my professional life is to avoid being a Luddite, but with that being said I place my bets in the pool that programmers are still very much needed, and will be for the foreseeable future. In fact, I think it's probable that people who would have otherwise naturally gravitated towards programming are now feeling discouraged, so there will be a talent drought greater than the current one over the next decade. Good news for employees, massively bad news for employers. I'd love to know more about how Top Gun came up! It was my dad (former CTO/civil engineer/programmer) who had me watch it, so I'd love to tell him some cool anecdote. As an aside, I'm taking your suggestion to heart, and if there's enough interest I'll make a video dedicated to AI, its past, its present, and its future. I write code for game AI so I stand on the shoulders of giants for the algorithms and standards my implementations are built on, but it's different from the latest research and products. Jeff Orkin brought the game AI world 'planning' which was based on Stanford research from the 1970s, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's more recent developments I should pay attention to and highlight/build on.

@@SyncMain Thank you for that, all the to you and your family.

You’ll never ever never WHAT?! So much suspense

Depending on the studio they might have programming language knowledge requirements, sometimes C++, sometimes C#, but they might be lenient on that. You’ll see what’s required on the job listings for the internships, or on the company’s internship information page if they have one. It’s hard to know what you would need to know without knowing which company and what specialities you might be looking into/what they offer. General knowledge that is good though, outside of code-specific knowledge, would include vector math, trigonometry, and some linear algebra. Don’t worry too much if you don’t get an internship or get an internship in a different industry though, it would be a good thing to have on your resume but isn’t totally necessary if you can find other ways of getting experience. Good luck and thanks for watching!

@@SyncMain Thank you for such a quick reply and for giving good information. I will definitely go and check out some companies requirements, and see where I can go from there. I'm currently in pre-calculus so I'll be able to take linear algebra and trig after this quarter I believe. Thanks again!

My current company’s standard enforces use of auto, which I’m not a fan of, but fortunately Visual Studio and Visual Assist have an option to show the type inline with the code. Nothing can be done for things like our code review and diff software though. It’s a shame.

i much more complex than this. You will way more years of learning

There's no set timeline, and I have seen people do this kind of turnaround in hot job markets in the past, but it's a lot of work and might be an unrealistic goal for most people. That being said I would like to encourage you to try, but don't get discouraged if you don't get a job within X amount of time. A lot of the people I know who are looking for a self taught curriculum for web development go to The Odin Project, maybe you can start there (www.theodinproject.com/). Good luck!

@@SyncMain thanks for that link, imma do my best

Only because I've seen the author complain about the way the book is being published, you can probably find Christer Ericson's Real Time Collision Detection for free out on the internet, maybe in PDF form, if you just search for it. It might be helpful to you in your current situation. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for watching!

@@SyncMain Oh I will absolutely check it out, my current project only handles simple 2d AABBs, it's fine for this project but for future ones I'll definitely would want more, thanks!

I've been applying a similar principle recently, but also to making code more performant. I realized I was spending way too much time thinking about how to make code cleaner or more performant and not enough time coding and experimenting. And none of my programs were even big enough or slow enough for those things to matter!

"It's better to have "bad" code than no code." i would say that its better to have a good architecture and bad algorithmes

This is the inevitable outcome of refusing to use TDD.

yeah i get it but also those 20-30 mins are worth 90 minutes later when you need to go a fix it later reading shitty code takes way longer than writing clean(ish) code. it never starts when the first lines are written it becomes hell when new code is built on top of “stream of consciousness” code structuring. it becomes impenetrable but over-abstraction at the start of a project is death

@@5SADHgetting tests to pass doesn’t mean anything - unit tests are just a mechanism to test all your elaborate interfaces that probably didn’t need to exist in the first place if you just wrote basic documentation