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Anyone get this guy randomly recommended to them? Im loving it.

Hey there Daniel, It's me in 2024. Back in 2017, I discovered this video and this was where my programming interests began. I first started off by learning JavaScript (because it was the language you were using) then Python, a bit of C++, Java and Ruby and I went into more advanced stuff such as Logic, and how programming languages work, and computer science. I learned how to code in Visual Basic, as well as learning about the parts of PC, the basic input devices, the BIOS, and more. All because I discovered this video of yours. I cannot find the words to express my gratitude to you.

It is pretty amazing that a game that was once considered good enough for commercial distribution in arcades became a time waster pack-in on cellphones, and then finally a 30 minute coding tutorial.

Damn! This video is almost 3 years old and you're still responding to comments? Saw you in my recommended and found the video super interesting. Thanks!

do call of duty next

dont know why this channel appeared in my recommended, clicked on 1 video and have been browsing for hours now. This makes we want to learn to code.

"Hello and welcome to what today will be a 15 minute coding challenge" *Looks at video length* Uh huh....

You totally earn my respect , you are a great programmer and mentor, thanks for all your videos.

Seriously wish I could code like you. I can think of what I need to do but can't implement it as effectively as you can. I just found this channel randomly and am loving it! You're very entertaining.

just jumped on the javascript/coding train and I'd love to say, this is the most useful video, I have seen to date. I know enough to understand the basic mechanics of whats going on here but seeing this implementation and real time description is super awesome and very useful. Big thumbs up

Story of every programmer, will finish by tomorrow. Three years later... Thank you man, I am learning so much!

I love how you fucking start from a CHALLENGE but then you shift into this in-depth tutorial and omg I LOVE HOW YOU TEACH

at 12:23 instead of writing out "if (d

I dont know how, but in only 15 minutes, you taught me more than multiple hours of someone speaking my language

Never knew JavaScript codes are so light and u can do much with so little.....

Wow, just randomly found this video. Now I understand javascript...i think

Him Talking : 15 minute challenge On-screen Bar : 10 Minute Challenge Video Length : 30 Minutes Me : Seems Legit.

"I'm going to make var s, mainly to save time.." proceeds to keep talking about var s for more time than it would've been to create var snake

I like how coding challenges are suspenseful, entertaining and informative at the same time 🌀

so i spend 4+ hours trying to understand and copy verbatim what another person did to make snake in a youtube video, and you get it done in like 25ish minutes. Absolutely brilliant coding skills dude.

genius, haven't coded for 15 years, tempted to have a go again. thanks bro!

As someone who just got into coding I am so happy I just found your channel. Love your passion!

You dont need a head and a tail. You can have 1 array with 1 vector in the beginning and when it grows you just push a vector to it. To update it, you will set for example index 5's position 4, 4->3, 3->2, 2->1, 1->0 and then index 0 being the head will just head whatever direction the player controls it. Update function will be much easier: // Move the tail for (var i = this.snake.length - 1; i > 0; i--) { this.snake[i].x = this.snake[i-1].x; this.snake[i].y = this.snake[i-1].y; } // Move the head this.snake[0].x = this.snake[0].x + this.xspeed * scl; this.snake[0].y = this.snake[0].y + this.yspeed * scl;

how gome i enjoy watching you code but i dont accually know how to code :P

Damn I wanna be like you, that's my New Years resolution :p - be energetic - be good at coding - wear cool shirt combos - be generally brilliant

he couldve done this in 5 minutes if he wasnt worried about the time or explaining what everything is.

Your tutorials are helpful. I recommend losing the time limit for most videos. A calm problem solver is more effective, applicable, and instructional. An arbitrary time limit can be meaningless without statistical metrics and a rigorous measure of problem complexity; but even then, a strong focus on time limits seems to be detrimental. Either way I appreciate your effort!

2:27 I'm nervous about wasting time so I'm just gonna call it "s" then brag about it for a minute. - Daniel Shiffman 2016

4 years of learning programming this challenge will probably take me a week. I'm bad

Oh boi, I love youtube recommendation. They brought me to this wonderful art of coding

the best to master something is learn from mistakes, when other videos shows they' have non mistakes during program it, it's hard to understand each of the component . this is an excellent example to learn and understand parts by parts. thanks sir

Dude, you code like in movies. Keep going.

You are seriously the most entertaining person while teaching code! Wish my professors were like you. lol Been binge watching all your Code Challenges

I like how he spares no words for the explaination against the time...he just speaks faster

I dont know anything about programming but i enjoyed watching this video

i want whatever this guys having lmfao.

I've always thought that I look/sound like I'm mental every time I explain my codes in class. Now that I found your videos I'm certain that everyone thinks I'm insane... This is like looking at a mirror.

I just started to get into programming recently and i definetly won't be able to build such a code yet but im so happy that i understood 80-90% of the steps you did there. That is a great motivation ^^

Such a great video, even though I didn't understand a single word. This got me so hyped, guess I am going to start coding

And you just got a new subscriber :D You are amazing!

Love his enthusiasm when he making these video. You can tell he has so much passion for what he does.

“Debugging” means awkwardly staring at the code and doing nothing wondering where you went wrong…then spacing out

I loved adding the Arabic language for translation, please continue with that, Your follower from Egypt, thank you ❤✌

I've been feeling bummed about my coding ability lately because I'm entering the final year of my university degree and university has been such an awful experience for me. I decided to attend a technical institute next year and complete a two year program for a computer systems technology diploma. Initially seeing this video made me sad because I know I'd never be at your level but when you didn't complete it in the time limit and had so many other things to solve after the fact, it just resonated with me so much and I felt the exact same feelings when I'm working on a difficult assignment. You have that initial clarity and almost simplistic idea of the assignment but then you start coding and the devil really is in the details which only becomes apparent the more you code. Thank you for being so inspiring and I really want to commend you on your skill as a programmer!! Cheers.

Wow!! just found your channel and I have to say you are a boss. No way I could do that in the time you banged it out and I do a lot of topcoder competitions. You earned my sub. I think an efficient data structure for the snake would be a circular linked list. As only the last block and first block are moving. I guess this assumes that the snake is moving one grid per time unit though which I don't remember if yours was doing. But I suppose we can leave optimizations for the C monkeys.

I didnt code in python for 2 years and now I built a working Snake game in an evening. Thanks for this!!

Damn dude... You make programming so intertaining! Im gonna start watching your vids to learn and try to pass my subject. xD

There's a neat way of implementing a snake: You might notice that none of the snake elements, except the first and the last change. So you could simply create a dequeue, and every time the snake moves, an element gets added to the head (as the snakes current head + it's speed) and an element removed from it's tail. When the snake eats the food, you simply don't remove the element from it's tail. An efficient dequeue would ensure that snake.update is an O(1) operation, as opposed to shifting which is an O(n) operation, where n is the size of the snake. Simpler and Faster code! Also all food collisions and edge collisions would need to only check the head against them, which I think you're doing already, so that's not much of an improvement. I would suggest creating a new Snake object when a collision happens however, so that it's obvious that the snake starts over.

The adderall is strong in this one :D

I know this video is 6 years old, and i love your videos regardless, but things like this, i would love to see long form videos of, like, coding the entire game, add graphics, code the death of the walls, and the going backwards, code it all, i could watch this all day long.

The pickLocation can be simplified down to: x = floor(random(width/scl))*scl; repeat for y width/scl sets the columns, random picks one, floor aligns it(drops the decimal), *scl resizes back to full scale.

This was amazing lol Will definitely consider doing some of those for my channel Ha! Amazing video

If only we could pull that "technical difficulties" trick during our final exams...

How many of you are understanding nothing but still watching 😂😂😂

Just learning at the age of 54 and after watching a pro - "my head hurts". Very inspirational!

i know nothing of code. reeeealy wanted to see it complete =/

Wow a guy that can actually keep me interested and still tell me what the stuff does

I can't believe the fact that I've watched this vid a few months ago without any knowledge for programming and now I'm here again realising that he's actually using Processing, that I'm actually learning with

I'm trying to learn to code. The basics r so boring but I learn so much for these video your fast pace and explaining as you go really keeps me watching

I'm currently in college and just finished the second semester of my program where we covered basic JavaScript. I'd love to have you as a teacher for JS. The classes would be hilarious and highly educational. I'll have to settle for the videos, which are also great! Cheers.

24:48 - look at his face :D:D:D - runs the snake backwards. - dies from it - doesn't know whats going on - realizes that the "death" really worked, because he just died by running backwards.. - realizes that it's actually impossible to run backwards in the original game AT ALL - ...? :D its actually entertaining watching you code :D

i like this because its so realistic. underestimating tasks for each pomodoro and making (valid) excuses about 80/20 rule etc.

Thanks for inspiring me to try to do this myself in cpp using sfml, I originally saw this video when it was live in 2016 and tried to implement in cpp without coming back to this vid. It was a lot of fun to practice some basic programming skills and learn a bit of sfml for graphics handling.

I am watching this but I literally have NO idea what's going on

1. I don't get why this popped on my recomended videos list 2. I clicked this because I'm curious (also after finishing 2 seasons of Mr.Robot and learned python 2.7 and 3 ish) 3. the fact that he's like he lost his mind and recorded this alone, gives me an image of what the average programmers look like

An interesting way of storing the array of cells in the snake would be the directions of each cell. To store them you just use 2 bits of data for each (e.g. as two booleans for east/west and south/north), and to draw the snake you would have a simple loop to move a cursor around based on the directions, drawing each cell. You would also need to store the location of the snake's first or last cell.

last moments were exactly like when you deploy to production 😂😂😂😂😂

I spent several days to do it in Assembly

lmao when he turned the volume down I turned it up just before

This is one of the best coding channels on youtube.

I love this video! It was incredibly informative and enthusiastic over something so tedious. I started to freak out at the 1 min mark. I started in Python but this has motivated me to start jumping into JS. Cheers!

Man you are amazing! Subscribed! Also its nice that you explain stuff along the way. Keep it up.

That is just like me when working under pressure, and wanting to explain things to the full extent, feeling like I don't want to leave anything hanging. For the edge of the play area, would you allow for wrapping to the other side of the play field, or death on impact? Could make it part of level selection - easy allows the snake to wrap and hard doesn't.

i found this so entertaining, i love your enthusiasm

Great, now do Battlefield code.

Amazing dude. Please upload more videos. Can you do Tetris?

Doesn't matter whatever time you took. Best part is, you make everything easist for learners to learn! 😊

Man you are my hero!! You have coded so many things so far!!! Thank you!!!!

Ive only coded in computer class and i built a website that was total clickbait and it was super fun (but i cant code like this guy FeelsBadMan)

I've never seen anything like this and have no idea what any of this stuff means or how's he's doing it but I'd love to learn how its very interesting. you've gained a new sub

I think I've watched every Coding Rainbow/Train/Cubana... I'm very glad Dan didn't keep with the timed format 👍 Its much more relaxing content to enjoy when he's not panicked up to the eyeballs 😂

Despite the time limit and building from scratch. You are really great at explaining. Better then most how to code tutorials....

Classic programmer/developer/coder ( whatever you prefer ), always underestimating the time needed. Think of a project and be like "hmm, ok I can nail this in 15 minutes", 30 minutes later, not yet finished, "why do I always do this!?!?!?!".

him: "I don't really want to use 'death' as a variable name" me: uses death as often as possible

I want to be a programmer, when i first saw this i said omg this man is so cool! You inspired me so much!

Don't know much about coding, still came here to watch the snake. 🤣🤣

I'm not quite sure how I found you, but your channel is awesome! Keep up the great work! :) +1 sub

I know nothing about coding but I enjoyed watching this for some, God knows why, reason

I don't know the FIRST thing about coding. Like, I wouldn't know where to start, I don't even know what a function is, I don't know what app you use to code on Java but I've just seen the whole video and I was cheering hard when you fixed one of the problems. I also got very happy about the fact that I had spotted a 'total' without 'this.' before you and was able to predict that it wouldnt work. Omg this is so exciting I'm go watch The Matrix

Started programming today, will share when I'm able to do it, love ur vids, keep it up:)

You totally remind me of myself when I am solving something in the code.... talking to my self like you do to us. Neat video.

FUCKIN hell. there's no way i can think of EXACTLY which methods I'd need beforehand. I'd add method as I need them. how are you able to do it? are you on drugs? did you plan it beforehand? i think you did.

I love how much you explain your code, really helps us beginners, especially the diagrams.

What an absolute madman and even more-so, an icon. I can only hope to have an iota of your brilliance at any given time in my life

I'm currently 19 and thinking about majoring in computer science. I can only dream of the day I can do something like this...

"And I actually have a diagram", yup. That's a programmer alright.

You're the boss of cool nerds. Thank you for this!

I have no idea of most of the things you were talking about but it was really interesting.

Challenge Recuest... Online FPS game with realistic graphics in 10 seconds please