The code player - a word from our developers 07 6月 2012 by Muvizu_Admin in News I found this today on Wired.com and I thought I’d share as I think it’s a really interesting concept.http://thecodeplayer.com/It’s a set of tutorials for making simple little demos in CSS3 and HTML5. What’s awesome about it though is that it has a “walkthrough” feature where you can actually see the programmer typing out the code and see the intermediate stages ofdevelopment running alongside in real time.I’m not a web-developer, I know the basics of HTML but feel very out of touch when it comes to cutting edge developments such as HTML5. Spending half an hour watching these (the Snake one is great) and I feel like I could knock up a wee interactive “Google Doodle” or something. Seems to be an incredible way of learning a language for those who are already reasonably competent in other languages or who already know the basics. It’s showing you so much more about the evolving functionality than simply looking at the finished code.Now I’m not suggesting that I start recording myself writing Muvizu code but I can imagine setting the same thing up for the Unreal Development Kit. Epic have apparently recently introduced some level of play-in-browser/Flash support. With this, and something like The Code Player you could set up a little sandbox level (maybe a simple car on some terrain, or a spaceship and some gun turrets) and create demos to teach people the basics of interactive 3D programming in Unreal. The viewer sees the programmer type some code, hit “compile” and instantly sees the results in the same browser window. It would be much better than the current generation of teaching resources. It would be complicated however by the frequent need to fire up the Unreal Editor when working on UDK projects but if you started out with a defined set of resources, everything else is done in code and it’s not trivial to learn how to write it! Might be a fun project anyway... David CummingMuvizu Team
07 6月 2012 by Muvizu_Admin in News I found this today on Wired.com and I thought I’d share as I think it’s a really interesting concept.http://thecodeplayer.com/It’s a set of tutorials for making simple little demos in CSS3 and HTML5. What’s awesome about it though is that it has a “walkthrough” feature where you can actually see the programmer typing out the code and see the intermediate stages ofdevelopment running alongside in real time.I’m not a web-developer, I know the basics of HTML but feel very out of touch when it comes to cutting edge developments such as HTML5. Spending half an hour watching these (the Snake one is great) and I feel like I could knock up a wee interactive “Google Doodle” or something. Seems to be an incredible way of learning a language for those who are already reasonably competent in other languages or who already know the basics. It’s showing you so much more about the evolving functionality than simply looking at the finished code.Now I’m not suggesting that I start recording myself writing Muvizu code but I can imagine setting the same thing up for the Unreal Development Kit. Epic have apparently recently introduced some level of play-in-browser/Flash support. With this, and something like The Code Player you could set up a little sandbox level (maybe a simple car on some terrain, or a spaceship and some gun turrets) and create demos to teach people the basics of interactive 3D programming in Unreal. The viewer sees the programmer type some code, hit “compile” and instantly sees the results in the same browser window. It would be much better than the current generation of teaching resources. It would be complicated however by the frequent need to fire up the Unreal Editor when working on UDK projects but if you started out with a defined set of resources, everything else is done in code and it’s not trivial to learn how to write it! Might be a fun project anyway... David CummingMuvizu Team
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