Learn To Code By Making A Music Practice App

Get started with programming by making a music practice app using lua and the Love2D framework

What you'll learn

You will get a jump start on coding and programming principles

You will learn programming in a goal oriented fashion

You will gain experience debugging and troubleshooting code

You will obtain the skills to realise your ideas and design when you personalise the app

Requirements

No prior programming skills are required!

The course will use Visual Studio Code and Love2D. Both of which are free to download (Lesson 1 guides you through the installation process). Both of these programs are available on both Windows and Mac.

Description

This course introduces students to coding principles while moving towards a finished application. The course will make use of the lua programming language and the Love 2D framework. Lua is a fantastic language to learn as your first coding language; it is easily digested and allows you to get a taste of the core principles of programming.At the end of the course students will take away their completed practice tool and will be encouraged to customize and personalize their app further.The app that we will create is a simple application for the purpose of music instrument practice. The app (when completed and fully functional) will choose a random tempo (for example 120 beats per minute) and a random exercise (e.g. A Major). Upon completion of that metronome cycle, a different combination will be chosen at random. In doing so, you will get hands on with core programming principles and the problem solving required to succeed in future programming endeavours. I hope that you learn to enjoy coding as much as I do and go off to explore your own ideas and creations! I also hope that you make use of your application and that it helps you become a better musician!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Installing Visual Studio Code and Love2D

Lecture 2 Let's get 'C Major' written on the screen

Lecture 3 Getting a Metronome to Play

Lecture 0 Sequencing Different Sounds

Lecture 0 Setting a Table of Different Metronome Speeds

Lecture 4 Linking the Text on Screen to the Metronome that is playing

Lecture 5 More Tempos and a Selection of Exercises to go with them

Lecture 0 Countdown Timers on Screen

Lecture 0 Designing the Pause and Skip Buttons

Lecture 0 Implementing Mouse Click Functionality

Lecture 6 Pause Button Functionality

Lecture 0 Changing the Colour of the Pause Button When Clicked

Lecture 0 Setting up the Skip Button

Lecture 0 Replacing the Metronome Sounds

Lecture 7 Skip Button Animation

Lecture 8 Wrapping Up!

Lecture 9 Making an Executable File of our App!

This course is for anyone who is interesting in getting started with programming. It is especially suited to musicians as the app has a music focus. Having said that, you definitely do not need to be a musician to participate in this course.