u/AldoZeroun

I must have taken the '2b1s' adage to heart as a slightly autistic child that it ingrained on my soul, because if I want to go see a movie at the theatre, I won't leave the house to do it until I have something else, even just one other reason to go out, but specifically in that direction. Heaven forbid I have to drive to two different directions to run errands.

Thank God there are enough grocery stores whichever way I go, So i can 'pick up while I'm out' something I'm low on when I go to the bottle depot, see the doctor, or visit friends.

And even though it definitely feels better to get like 3+ things accomplished at a time, just that one extra task completed makes the trip worthwhile.

But this applies to getting up from my desk to go the the kitchen, or walking across campus to the library. No matter how short the trip, if I want to go to a place that I am not obligated to, there HAS to be a second reason.

So, when I'm getting tired of the back and forth (even if it's a good time), or especially when I feel it's naturally winding down, a conversation just doesn't feel like it's properly over until I react to their last message with an emoji.

I think it's because it doesn't really give them much to respond back with but offers them resolution on how you recieved their message. But I don't care if I get one if mine was the last message.

I was writing this to comment on a post that just got deleted before I finished. It could help people who want to ask similar "where to begin" style questions, since this is how I began.

This one offers a full csci curriculum through free online courses. The intro courses are a good place to start.

https://ossu.firebaseapp.com/#/

This is literally where I started. I finished these next three before my first year of university.

https://learn.saylor.org/course/cs101

This is a great course, usually refreshed every year. It has follow up courses in many subjects including game dev. Plus it's from Harvard, so you can say you've taken a Harvard level course!

https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-science/harvard-university-cs50-s-introduction-to-computer-science

This is hands down the best course here. It singlehandedly over prepared me for so many courses in my degree all the way up into my third year that I never struggled to understand new concepts.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

There are a lot of other books and courses out there, this was just my path and my bias. But I wouldn't change a thing if I had to do it all over again.

I'm 8 years In since I really started to code. I'm still an amateur by research or tech I dustry standards, but I do well at university, and can comprehend an open source codebase in order to contribute. My focus is on becoming an indie game dev, with maybe a couple open source plugins or tools of my own on the side to give back.

But, I constantly get nostalgia for the days when I first learned what recursion was, or wrapped my head around classes. I still rember watching and MITx video on classes using Python as the example language and just not understanding it, but knowing that I would someday.

I know there's always so much more to learn, and computer science is a deep ocean to swim in, but I guess I look back and wish I could do it all again, like getting to reread a good book as if for the first time. In my early years I would rewatch David Malan every new school year reteach CS50 for that very reason. Maybe the problem is I'm near the end of my degree, and unless I go on to a course based master's theres no more lectures to soak up. If education were free I would never stop. I'll probably seek out what resources are out there I can, but nothing feels like listening to a professor and raising your hand with the right answer, or better, the right question. To be immersed in the process of learning.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I hope anyone at the start of their journey realizes what a beautiful moment they're living in. That the journey is the destination.

I hope that you can all get some good use out of this, sometimes it feels crazy that I couldn't find anything like it before (though I won't mind you pointing something out if you know of one). I needed it desperately because I had over 1,000 files I needed to maintain with the same color scheme, and command line tools just weren't going to be a satisfying way to accomplish that, especially when I want to see the changes before I actually make them.

I did set a price for the binaries on Itch.io to help support my work. But I definitely support and suggest exporting it from source yourselves if that's more to your liking. Its built with the Godot Engine so it's a straightforward cross-platform option (and the only way to get it on MacOS).

Also, if you can think of anywhere else I should post about a tool like this, in case it can legitimately help someone with their graphical design work, please let me know.

Source on Github
Binaries on Itch.io
Video Tutorial