{"id":471,"date":"2008-08-09T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:23:37","slug":"why-making-tutorials-will-make-you-a-better-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/flash\/why-making-tutorials-will-make-you-a-better-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Making Tutorials Will Make You a Better Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What Writing Tutorials Has Done for Me<\/h3>\n<p>Writing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/tutorials\">tutorials<\/a> has been a great experience for me. Not only are they useful to many beginners at flash, but they&#8217;ve taught me a lot as well. Before writing some of my tutorials and articles, I did not practice some of the tips I&#8217;ve told others to do. Upon writing my tips down, however, I realized that I was being somewhat hypocritical. Afterwards, it all changed. I corrected many of my mistakes and all was well.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/mrsunstudios.com\/obj\/img\/posts\/typing.jpg\" alt=\"Image by Ginny Austin from Stock.xchng\" style=\"float:left;margin-right:10px;\" \/><br \/>\nWriting tutorials has also given me some inspiration for my future games. I remember after creating my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/2008\/07\/tutorial-create-a-brick-breaker-game-in-as3\/\">brick breaker tutorial<\/a>, I thought up of a brilliant new game that I could create after my current project. But then, sadly, I realized that a game like it had already been created. But, that does not change the fact that I became deeply inspired.<\/p>\n<h3>What Writing Tutorials Can Do For You<\/h3>\n<p>Maybe you aren&#8217;t like me and you don&#8217;t learn by writing your ideas down. That doesn&#8217;t mean that writing tutorials won&#8217;t help you at all. While I was making my tutorials, I actually discovered some new ways to accomplish something while I was experimenting some ways to teach the subject. One of those discoveries was using some custom AS2 syntax in the brick breaker tutorial.<\/p>\n<p>Writing tutorials also sometimes requires some research. Because this doesn&#8217;t come straight from your head, you definitely have the chance of learning something new. You wouldn&#8217;t need to do research if you didn&#8217;t need to learn, would you? That&#8217;s what I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Writing Tutorials Has Done for Me Writing my tutorials has been a great experience for me. Not only are they useful to many beginners at flash, but they&#8217;ve taught me a lot as well. Before writing some of my tutorials and articles, I did not practice some of the tips I&#8217;ve told others to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[5,98,41,92,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}