There are many ways you can secure your connection. For instance add a "securityKey" as another parameter.

Create a key constant in C2 with some value just to salt the hashing. And do the same on your server side.

For instance:

hashingKey = "#$fdsf$%6YThfY^&%^&24wrw"

securityKey = sha1(username & hashingKey & something)

Send this security key to your server together with credentials. Now on the server side also create securityKey in the exactly same way and compare if it is equal to the one which came.

In that way even if someone knows the URL for registration he is not able to fake the securityKey so he can't do anything.

SaRaB I have explained everything on my blog.

You always have to check for the license and license details. I also wrote a section: "Always take a screenshot of the asset download page!", that way you have a proof that you have rights to use it. And next section says "No license? No use!". So everything is explained. If something is not clear - let me know.

At the bottom of my post on my blog you can also find many links where you can get free assets (graphics, sounds, music, icons). But some of them are totally free (public license) and some need attribution. You have to check it for each asset separately.

There is no "best" site. Each one has different content, so it depends what you need. Just dive and check.

From another perspective, I personally believe knowledge of Unity/Unreal Engine would be more relevant as we move towards the future

If you really want to teach to beginners what programming means, you can use C2 just for making them doing a fun work but your risk is to let them believe it's always so easy. No syntax problem, the interface telling you everything etc. because when they will meet the hard reality of code, they can be disapointed too.

Gentelmans. Don't be ignorant . Remember how it all started? First it was about setting bits with 0s and 1s. Then we recieved another virtualization which was Assembler. Still everybody dreamed to make soft easier so finally we got human readable programming virtualizations like ANSI C. Next step was OOP paradigm, design patters, frameworks, programming IDE tools which done some things for us and many other things along the way and up.

So we are doing still the same thing just using new virtualizations of programming itself. If you meet a hardcore programmer from '70s he could say "Oh man, you use mouse and color monitor to highlight syntax? - you're not a real programmer!" . The times change. Drag & drop programming like here in C2 is not something for kids to play. It's just new thing which will get more and more popular. Other engines started to build their drag&drop systems now as well... as Godot for instance which announced recently that they want it as well. Unreal engine has it as well if I'm not mistaken.

Anyway this is the future. All of you who are working with tools like C2 you are precursors of modern programming. Almost no one code with Assembler these days and there will be time when no one will code with regular programming language. That's a sure thing. Just need a time to let technology get steady. Right now we have some performance issues etc, but VERY soon this will not be a problem - you know that.

So if you ask me what is the future? I say that a tool of the future is the one which gives the same result in smaller amount of time. Remember when Ruby language popped up? Everybody were like "WTF is this?!" It was some weird language without semicolons, very heavy etc. But you could do things ten times faster than with other languages, and it got popular in result.

C2-like engines are the future. Not discouraging from learning other engines and coding - it's always good to know as more as possible. But C2-like engines are the future for sure.

Point 5 is there

The software tell you "don't worry about the code, i'll do it for you. You click, I program".

True - C2 will do the implementations, but let's highlight that you have to plan it/make algorithm anyway and that's the beauty.

For example, the Function object doesn't work AT ALL like a function in a "classic" language.

Why? You have a trigger (function name), input parameters, return value. For me it's a classic function. You give the input and fetch the output. You can even do callbacks.

— haha we did the same !

I'm a 10 years experienced programmer, it took me 2 years to feel i knew the full power of C2

As I said every new thingy takes time to get familiar with .

It's great that so many perspectives come up for this topic. Based on the previous posts (including your writings too) in your opinion do you think that C2 can be a good base for someone who want to learn professional programming? Or it might be better if I ask that way: Do you think that for someone, who learned programming logic with C2 in a formal way, alongside a teacher, is it possible to step to the next level, the professional level, learning only by themselves?

Short answer - yes. But...

Again, C2 will teach you a programming thinking, not a programming itself. No matter if you start with C2 or pure coding you have to learn the second thing anyway. I am quite experienced coder but it took me months to get fluent in C2 even though I had years of experience as a coder. Every new technology you jump into takes time to learn no matter how much you know already. Even jumping from one language to another requires you to learn new syntax, conventions, tools etc. Obviously the more you know already the less time it takes to learn new thing since many of them are similar and have one base - the logic (programming thinking). So when you master C2 it will take you months or years to master coding anyway.

Regarding learning with or without a teacher. If possible then I highly recommend to learn with a teacher. If you have someone experiened next to you who can directly answer any question then you learn 100 times faster and you're not getting bad habbits which newbiews always do. So if one have teacher while learning C2 it will take probably few months to master C2 instead of many months. Then if he continue learning by starting coding and this part is without a teacher then he will struggle - that's a sure thing. It's another "technology". Same base, but new thing anyway.

Easier comparison would be to ask Would someone who mastered C2 with a teacher be able to learn making games in Unity by himself?. Yes he will be able (nothing is impossible here), but obviously he will have to learn a lot of new things. New editor/interface, C# language, Unity conventions etc.

I am not sure why do you ask? If you want to start teaching people C2 proffessionally then I vote for it. I wrote my first program in 1992 (something around that) so really long time ago, and there was no such tools like C2, so we had no choice that time. And many people just gave up on the way learning pure coding which is not easy at the beginning at all. But if we had such a great tool back in the '90s I'm sure we all would go for it at start cause it's just way more pleasent for newbie to jump into IT. Anyway teachers are always a good choice. You save a lot of time when you learn with a teacher. Just be a good one!

And one more thing to mention. By learning programming it is not the most important to learn syntax, conventions, functions etc. Those things you can easily find in the documentations and you will get familiar with them in time. The most important thing in order to be a good programmer is to learn how to write a good code. A good code is basically a code that when your project gets very big, then you still know where is what and when a new programmer join a team he doesn't want to commit a suicide by working with your code.

So what is it all about:

• Understanding conventions (global, and particular for currently used technology) and sticking to it
• Making a DRY (Do not Repeat Yourself) code
• Making an organized, ecapsulated code (!) as much as possible
• Making often refactoring instead of "flat" prototype extending
• Making semantic code instead of writing tons of long comments which will get deprecated with new release anyway
• etc....

There are a lot of things which are VERY important in programming but not directly related to a specific technology and YES, you can learn most of them with C2 as well.

Throughout the years I've been teaching programming to many people (actually not that many... around 15 I'd say). I also had experience with total newbies who had no idea what is it all about, they just wanted "to make games/websites".

And many times I saw people struggle to understand even such a basics like the compiler reads the code from top to the bottom or simple for loop was a struggle. It's not because they were stupid people. It's because for absolute newcommers all the programming terms are absolutely abstract.... like "what is this compiler/parser at all?!".

So as this topic is not "let's compare C2 and pure coding" but "Does Construct 2 teach good programming thinking?", then yes. It surely does. I understand that full topic should be "Does Construct 2 teach newbies good programming thinking?", since advanced users already know how to think in order to code. So for newbies C2 is really a good start especially because everything is visual and they don't have to fry their brains trying to imagine what an object is... etc. You just get it much faster when you see it.

Now if the newbie make a step further or not depends on him. If he is a pure hobbyst then probably he would never go and learn any programming language because C2 is fun and usually enough for hobbysts to make games. But if you have mastered C2 and decided to put IT on your proffessional career trip, then you must learn what is below, because sooner or later there will be a task to do which pure C2 won't handle with default plugins and you will have to make your own.

I believe that either you haven't put the credits fo some CC-BY-3.0 licensed assets. Or someone intentionally reported you for some reason.

Also Google automatically checks sounds and gfx against some copyright databases. It's clearly seen on YouTube.

Here you have a list and some rules explanation of how to use them http://tobyr.wtfgamesgroup.com/free-ass ... and-rules/

Working now on Local Notifications module.

What will module include:

• sending local notifications once with delay
• sending local notifications once set on particular date
• scheduling frequent local notifications (repeated weekly etc.)
• opening application after clicking on notification without reaction (for instance "Hey we miss you! Come to game!" - then game opens and nothing special happens)
• reacting on arrived notification (for instance "Hey! We just gave you 1000 gold coins! Come check it out!" - and then 1000 coins is added to the account)
• canceling notifications

If there is anything else useful you think should be implemented, let me know.

Cheers

Am i late on this?

I must say that's the best rev share invitation I have seen so far .

If it has to be a real time, then WebRTC (you need socet server) or WebSockets (you need to build server in JAVA for instance). If not then it can be done even by AJAX. Then one app updates some database/file with TODO information and second app frequently checks if there are any news in the database.