Game Programming Online Courses

I've been thinking about enrolling in a game programming course, but college's been keeping me pretty busy

Why don't you wait until college (which has to be your top priority while you're in college) is not keeping you busy?

Is there a particular reason that you need to be a "game programming course?" It seems like with your schedule, something like a good YouTube playlist or another place with very on-demand teaching would be idea. I don't have any particular ones to recommend but maybe those extra options will help someone else point you to a good resource.

I've been thinking about enrolling in a game programming course, but college's been keeping me pretty busy

Why don't you wait until college (which has to be your top priority while you're in college) is not keeping you busy?

I can handle both, but one of them must be flexible. College isn't, so I need the course to be, if there's such thing. That's a good question though, but I don't really wanna get into that, if you don't mind.

Is there a particular reason that you need to be a "game programming course?" It seems like with your schedule, something like a good YouTube playlist or another place with very on-demand teaching would be idea. I don't have any particular ones to recommend but maybe those extra options will help someone else point you to a good resource.

Oh, well, I've been studying on my own for a while, reading books and articles, watching YouTube playlists, etc. I think taking a course would make me commit more and be more responsible about it, maybe motivate me a bit more, if you know what I mean.

I don't know of any game programming courses, or what your experience is, but theres basic and some more advanced programming courses on Coursera, as well as Code Academy, I enjoy using both.

If you haven't already stumbled upon these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston/videos?flow=list&view=1

There's a very good course of game programming with HTML5 in Udacity, you must have a basic understanding of Javascript to be able to progress, it's not C or C++ but this should help you getting into game dev.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255

There's a c# game dev course that's new on coursera. If I'm not mistaken it is the first time it's been up so I cannot really tell you if it's good or not. However, based on past and current experiences with coursera I'd say it'll be quite nice. I'm giving it a try and maybe you might want to as well. https://www.coursera.org/course/gameprogramming

There's a c# game dev course that's new on coursera.

Was just about to mention Coursera They have some video game-related courses but now there's even a game programming course, pretty cool stuff.

Edit: there's another one too, about making games in Python - https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython

There's a very good course of game programming with HTML5 in Udacity, you must have a basic understanding of Javascript to be able to progress, it's not C or C++ but this should help you getting into game dev.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255

To be honest I looked into the videos after you linked them and found them depressingly lacking. The videos are good quality but the way they teach is just awful, they barely actually give you any information in little 30 second video segments then expect you to essentially teach yourself just to write in code on a page editor that quite often fails for a variety of reasons.

Not supporting firefox and only chrome is also completely stupid.

There's a c# game dev course that's new on coursera.

Was just about to mention Coursera They have some video game-related courses but now there's even a game programming course, pretty cool stuff.

Edit: there's another one too, about making games in Python - https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython

Yep, I took that course too and I highly recommend it. Very useful for beginner programmers.

Have a look at: http://www.alice.org/index.php

3dBuzz.com also has some good online tutorials

Even though you might not be interested in this course I am suggesting, because I enrolled in this coursera course Beginning Game Programming with C# (begins September 16, 2013) and I want to know if anyone else is taking this course?

https://www.coursera.org/course/gameprogramming

For 2D gaming course I highly recommend this one from Rice begins October 7. https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython

Hello,
I feel gameinstitute has the informal-formal structure you are looking for.

www.gameinstitute.com

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