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This is the course wrapup lecture
where I make a few final comments and

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then send you on your way.

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First, I want to thank you for
participating in this course.

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Being given the opportunity to open up
the world of game programming to tens of

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thousands or hundreds of thousands of
students, is just an amazing thing to me.

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This is one of the most rewarding
professional experiences I've ever had and

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you helped make that possible.

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So, thanks for coming along for what
was sometimes perhaps a bumpy ride but

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hopefully an enjoyable and
rewarding ride for you as well.

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Second, as usual people
on the forums are in

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general really great
at helping each other.

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This is obviously one of those
environments where I can't help every

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student who needs it and so
helping each other was a fantastic thing.

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Okay, well now that the course is over,
what do you do next?

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Well, there are a few
things you can do next.

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First of all, if there were things that
are still not clear to you from the course

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material, you can always go back and
review those and try them again and work

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on figuring out what you might not have
understood to solidify your understanding.

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Also, you can move on and do intermediate
and advanced programming courses.

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So, it may not have felt like
this to all of you, especially if

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you've never programmed before but
this really was a beginning course.

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This is based on our first
programming course at UCCS, so

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it's certainly a beginning college course
not a beginning lower level course,

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but it is for beginners.

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And so, if you've got this foundation
down, now you can move forward and

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do intermediate and
advance things as well.

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Finally, now you can go build really
cool games that you envision.

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By necessity, the games in this
course were dictated by me,

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here's what the game has to be, and go do
this, and that was really the only way

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we could do this to get peer reviews
done in some reasonable way.

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Now that you are no longer feathered
by the constraints of me telling you

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what to build,
you can go build any game that you want.

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And you can use the foundational stuff
you've used here to start your game, and

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then you can learn more advanced
programming topics to embellish your game

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to make it even more interesting and
advanced.

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But now you've got the tools to go
build amazing stuff and lots of us have

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wanted for a long time to be able to do
that and now you have the chance to do it.

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So this has been an incredible
experience for me.

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And hopefully,
it has been a rewarding experience for

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you, now it's time for
you to go build amazing games.

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Cheers.