If you know the basics of programming, then I would suggest you to just try and experiment with your skillset on your own. I also had some issues getting into larger projects, and the idea is to start small and go big with projects that you made up and are invested in. I don't like working of off tutorials too much because they are rarely of any intrest. Just try to build something. That's all there is to it.

Hi, my name is Raphael (Qbyte1800). I know you guys are not specifically looking for a programmer (so if you don't want me, please do not feel any obligation), but I would still love to help out in coding Autumn. I have about 5 years of coding experience, starting in a functional language nobody knows (scheme/racket, they are lisp languages) at school - my programming teacher does this because it "gives you a better understanding of the underlying " which he snobbishly says and I snobbishly repeat* - and recently shifted to focusing on object oriented languages.
On a daily basis, I now average 3 to 4 hours a weekday coding (and usually much more on weekends) in either Java for USACO problem set (www.usaco.com) or in Unity, while I learn work on my project in it (contact me if you want a link for that, I'm working on finding a good way to upload it). While I only got a grip for Unity recently, I have really started to understand the underlying structure of how UnityScript works, and I have been able to create an entire elaborate system with it rather quickly, to my surprise and – to some extent – dismay. I also can code in C++ and Arduino with relative ease, as a side benefit.

I also like the name. It really fits.

I was thinking that we could try to pull together the pipeline community and try to make (for a start) a rougelike game. It is sufficiantly complicated, so that a group of people would be needed to work on it, but still realistic in terms of feasibility. Does that seem to make sense?

When I started coding, I started with a really esoteric language, called Scheme(now renamed to Racket, www.racket-lang.org). The benifit I found, however, to using this somewhat unknown language is how well it teaches and forces you to follow good programming structure and methodology. If you are interested in that, you should check out the free book that teaches it to you at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/. The main reason people would have an inssue with Racket is due to its not being object oriented, and is functional instead. This causes for a slightly different mindset, and is not really used much for development (it's even called a "learning language"), but it worked out fine for me, seeing as I made the jump to C++ eventually (as it is a more widely accepted development language). The reason I do not want to suggest C++ or Java as your first language is because of just how many bad tutorials that exist for it, and it can be very hard to find the difference between good and bad code with languages so widly missused. The nice thing about the book I linked to above is that this is the language's official book, and has a very good understanding of programming methodology and abstractions.

If you do not want to start with an esoteric functional language, however, I can understand that. As a replacement, I would suggest watching the Stanford University online videos for classes 106A (programming methodology in Java) and 106B (programming abstractions in C++), while doing the assignments posted there for practice. As far as I can tell, anybody is able of accessing them, so check out CS106A.stanford.edu and CS106B.stanford.edu if you want to try that out. From there, its your choice about where to go, but those are my two best suggestions.

My name is Raphael, and I am a 16 year old school taught programmer and lifelong gamer. I started learning programming at my school about five years ago (almost six now!), starting in a subset of LISP called Scheme/Racket (www.racket-lang.org), and just recently took a Stanford C++ course in programming abstractions. I have always liked to code, especially while making small games from the ground up. Since I started I mostly focused on Racket, so (as any scheme/racket programmer will tell you) I have more experiance with code and data structure than anything. So, if any of you guys want to chat about how to represent this in code, or how to write an ideal function to do that, feel free to pm me. Nice to meet you all, and I'm really excited to see where pipeline is going!