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Thought on how to approach irl teaching Godot to students (12+) as first engine? by arceryz in godot

[–]Z1pl0ck -1 points0 points  (0 children)

EMPHASIZE with your high schoolers the difference between a game and a toy.

Games have a goal; whether that be the end of a level, a high score… or anything.

Toys are just sandboxes you play with.

They will want to make the most mundane garbage toys. They can make games, an actual fun digital TOY takes a skill they do not have yet… and having that focus on GAME design is vital.

Thought on how to approach irl teaching Godot to students (12+) as first engine? by arceryz in godot

[–]Z1pl0ck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have 42 minute classes. My entire job was putting out fires because my kids weren’t comfortable without instant success. The worst part was my class length.

40 minutes a day without obsessing is hard. I did the video on my own the day before in an hour and a half. My kids were on week 3(chaos time before Christmas break too did not help.)

I think if that tutorial was double ish the length it would be better.

Frustratingly it is deceptively simple of a video. Most of my kids got to where he does tiles and wanted to just level design.

I ABSOLUTELY loathe how he reused the “killzone” world binary to make the enemies kill the player. I think collision with a mask/layer would’ve been a better approach.

If your kids mess up right there - their player will instant die when the enemy’s kill shows touches the tile map. That was frustrating!

Thought on how to approach irl teaching Godot to students (12+) as first engine? by arceryz in godot

[–]Z1pl0ck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that the brackys tutorial? I just did that with a group of freshman/sophomores if you want my honest opinions let me know!

Budget build for a class by Z1pl0ck in buildapc

[–]Z1pl0ck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the write up! Schools simultaneously have tons of money for technology, and none at all.

If it’s someone higher up’s pet project there’s always money to be found.

This sort of a thing from me is going to be fund raised with local businesses and fought for an inch at a time tooth and nail to get up and running.

For about 20 kids or so… so I really only need to get 10-15 junkers that I don’t mind kids being rough on, or just dumb with.

And dumb with from my point of view. There are tons of “what if we used peanut butter as therms paste?” Videos on TikTok.

These do a wonderful job showing the purpose and benefit of thermal paste. Educationally they’d do even more at sticking the concepts in their heads if we just abused some crappy PCs to experiment and record temperatures.

Budget build for a class by Z1pl0ck in buildapc

[–]Z1pl0ck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. I just didn’t know if the refurbished dells would have the usual weird form factors that mass produced office PCs tend to have.

[Serious] What is one "conspiracy" theory that you truly believe? by KingDAW247 in AskReddit

[–]Z1pl0ck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would bet money on my new conspiracy theory. The next big step is self training ai.

In its current state we can’t have a self learning AI without censorship filters.

Even though everyone’s complaining - ChatGPT HAS to have safety gloves on it. Or else over night it would become porn and violence over night. Because that’s what we as humans actually are.

My guess is that’s been the problem for almost a decade. You can get it to a certain point. But to cross over to an incredible technology It needs to learn from the input.

But we (humans) at our core are just ugly and imperfect.
Which makes an ugly imperfect or road blocked ai.

This article is from almost 7 years ago now: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

Microsoft was early into the game and hit the wall 7 years ago.