While working on 'Happily Ever After', I found that the scale of the project requires better coding. I've temporarily stopped work on it and I'm going through some incredible resources that have helped my code immensely. In the last week, I've reviewed topics from polymorphism to multi-threading.
For Java, I'm using Bucky's free online videos over at http://www.thenewboston.com/
For actual coding practice, I'm using a site that gives you problems and allows you to code within the web site: http://codingbat.com
The information presented in these tutorials are a thousand times better than my college experience (though to be fair, we concentrated on Assembly, an almost machine language that's more difficult than object oriented languages). Even when I learned C# or Java in college, the information was presented in a terrible manner.
I've decided that someday, I'd like to start a nonprofit site that teaches kids to code through simple, short, and fun videos of the game mechanics found in old school NES / Super NES games.
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