I’m not trying to call you a plagiarizer or anything, but I played your demo and it “plays” a lot like the one you can make while following the tutorial. Everything is the same down to the animations and camera movement, which isn’t a bad thing but if you are following his tutorials then giving him credit would be good to do.
Also, copying can be really useful for learning. Trying to understand what everything does is great and really gives you a better understand, but if you’re not expanding on that knowledge then you’ll never make any progress and you’re technically ripping someone else off. My advice is to really try making something using what you’ve learnt (don’t look at the previous code) and try and truly understand it, figure out any problems and make the game your own. Implement new ideas!
I’m even copying a project myself at the moment for Android development but i’m commenting everything, looking into the details behind what everything does and trying to understand why to do something a certain way. It really cements it into my head and then I truly understand how to make something of my own.
Exactly. Nothing wrong with following tutorials or building upon code so long as the original author says it’s ok or you give them credit and don’t try to monetize their work. Learning programming is a very hard task as it is, copying is a valuable tool we can all use as long as we don’t abuse it!
DarkCart, I looked at that thread you made last year about the “3D” “room.” Give credits to whoever’s tutorial you followed because I’m 99% you did not do that. Problems arise when you lie.
You said “Didn’t I put this at the end?”
Instead of putting it at the end, you should put it at the beginning. Just friendly tips to help you get around lol.
I wouldn’t stress about it, you have to start somewhere. All source code is ultimately copy-pasted from StackOverflow. This includes the code snippets on StackOverflow itself.
I disagree with this, I rarely copy code from StackOverflow (not that I haven’t before), but most of the time if someone runs into a problem, I think anyone who understands programming on more than a basic level is just looking for logic/a way to go about it, and not the code its self.
I think if you are constantly copying code from StackOverflow you aren’t really doing yourself any good and probably not honestly learning much from it. I’ve seen lots of people run into problems because all they know how to do is copy+paste code and not actually write any of their own.
Just because you can copy+paste code and get something from it, doesn’t mean you can program.