This is the course wrapup lecture
where I make a few final comments and then send you on your way. First, I want to thank you for
participating in this course. Being given the opportunity to open up
the world of game programming to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of
students, is just an amazing thing to me. This is one of the most rewarding
professional experiences I've ever had and you helped make that possible. So, thanks for coming along for what
was sometimes perhaps a bumpy ride but hopefully an enjoyable and
rewarding ride for you as well. Second, as usual people
on the forums are in general really great
at helping each other. This is obviously one of those
environments where I can't help every student who needs it and so
helping each other was a fantastic thing. Okay, well now that the course is over,
what do you do next? Well, there are a few
things you can do next. First of all, if there were things that
are still not clear to you from the course material, you can always go back and
review those and try them again and work on figuring out what you might not have
understood to solidify your understanding. Also, you can move on and do intermediate
and advanced programming courses. So, it may not have felt like
this to all of you, especially if you've never programmed before but
this really was a beginning course. This is based on our first
programming course at UCCS, so it's certainly a beginning college course
not a beginning lower level course, but it is for beginners. And so, if you've got this foundation
down, now you can move forward and do intermediate and
advance things as well. Finally, now you can go build really
cool games that you envision. By necessity, the games in this
course were dictated by me, here's what the game has to be, and go do
this, and that was really the only way we could do this to get peer reviews
done in some reasonable way. Now that you are no longer feathered
by the constraints of me telling you what to build,
you can go build any game that you want. And you can use the foundational stuff
you've used here to start your game, and then you can learn more advanced
programming topics to embellish your game to make it even more interesting and
advanced. But now you've got the tools to go
build amazing stuff and lots of us have wanted for a long time to be able to do
that and now you have the chance to do it. So this has been an incredible
experience for me. And hopefully,
it has been a rewarding experience for you, now it's time for
you to go build amazing games. Cheers.