# Hello!
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741
**Category:** Arcade
**Created:** [October 6, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741 "2022-10-06T17:35:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@AbstractDesigner](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AbstractDesigner)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/1 "2022-10-06T17:35:46Z")
I’m new to the forum…
Can anyone teach me how to code correctly?
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### Author:  [@isoffline](https://forum.makecode.com/u/isoffline)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/2 "2022-10-06T18:39:13Z")
HELLO!! Welcome to the Forums and there will be aton of people will teach you how to code but I cant because of School so ye Welcom to the FORUMS
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### Author:  [@SmashFangameMaker](https://forum.makecode.com/u/SmashFangameMaker)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/3 "2022-10-07T00:28:31Z")
Yeah, welcome! I can teach you a little… but first, what type of coding do you use? Arcade? Micro:bit? JACDAC?
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### Author:  [@danger\_kitty](https://forum.makecode.com/u/danger_kitty)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/4 "2022-10-07T00:28:56Z")
Hi 🌇 you’ve come to the code city for makecode. A lot of my learning was form digging around other projects and learning how the work.
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### Author:  [@PixelDoodle](https://forum.makecode.com/u/PixelDoodle)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/5 "2022-10-07T16:25:28Z")
I can teach you the basics!
(P.S. Might wanna sit down for awhile. 😅 )
**Sprites**
- For creating Characters
- adding character traits
- destroying Things
- Shooting stuff
- Character Effects
- And Overlap codes
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**Controller**
- Connecting buttons to specific code
- Moving the player
- Adding P2 Controls
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**Game**
- Adding texts
- Game over (Win/Lose)
- running code every specific milliseconds
- Asking for numbers and Staments
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**Music**
- Just SFX and musical options
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**Scene**
- Making images for the backround
- Making game maps
- Screen effects
- Overlap for specific tiles
- Finding locations
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**Info**
- Setting lives
- Setting Countdowns
- Setting Scores
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**Loops**
- Running things multiple times
- Pausing
- Forever and on start Code
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**Logic**
- If statements (used for if a status is _true_ or _false_
- Comparing
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**Variables**
- Creating and defining a created value
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**Math**
- This needs no explanation.
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**Extensions**
- Adding special things like Health bars, Colors, Save Data, Storyline, etc.
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_advanced section_
**animations**
- Animations…
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**Images**
- Creating pictures
- Flip premade images
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**functions**
- Creating Operations to save Space
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**Arrays**
- Creating lists
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**Text**
- Making words
- adding varible names to texts
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**Console**
- Printing things in the console
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That’s the basics of the arcade!
Sorry for the lecture but I hope this Help!
Welcome to the Forum btw!
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### Author:  [@AbstractDesigner](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AbstractDesigner)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/6 "2022-10-07T16:25:41Z")
Arcade is the only code I can do lol the other codes are like a different language to me
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### Author:  [@AbstractDesigner](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AbstractDesigner)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/7 "2022-10-07T16:25:44Z")
rn I’m working on a trivia-ish game, how do you send the links?
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### Author:  [@SmashFangameMaker](https://forum.makecode.com/u/SmashFangameMaker)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/8 "2022-10-07T21:02:24Z")
Just paste them like normal and they will look like this:
> **[SFM Tower Defense](https://arcade.makecode.com/S50276-99431-20946-95894)**
>
> Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.
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### Author:  [@AbstractDesigner](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AbstractDesigner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2022, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/9 "2022-10-09T06:20:15Z")
Thanks! It helps more than the tutorials!
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### Author:  [@AbstractDesigner](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AbstractDesigner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2022, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/10 "2022-10-09T06:20:19Z")
Cool game btw 🙂
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### Author:  [@TheGreenArtist](https://forum.makecode.com/u/TheGreenArtist)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2022, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/11 "2022-10-09T06:21:00Z")
I’m New too!!!
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### Author:  [@PixelDoodle](https://forum.makecode.com/u/PixelDoodle)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/12 "2022-10-11T05:50:18Z")
NP dude! your welcome!
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### Author:  [@ChimbroDaPro](https://forum.makecode.com/u/ChimbroDaPro)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/13 "2023-04-04T15:07:32Z")
🙂 the people here are so nice…
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### Author:  [@\_jupiter](https://forum.makecode.com/u/_jupiter)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/14 "2023-08-07T16:18:18Z")
What @AbstractDesigner doesn’t know that in 1 year they will become a pixel art legend…
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### Author:  [@AbstractDesigner](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AbstractDesigner)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/15 "2023-08-14T16:28:25Z")
I know! There are a lot of other online forums out there where people are really toxic and inappropriate, but I think I came to a very friendly and wholesome place 😊
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### Author:  [@AbstractDesigner](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AbstractDesigner)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/16 "2023-08-14T16:28:26Z")
hehe
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### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/17 "2023-08-15T19:06:40Z")
_cough_ reddit _cough_
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### Author:  [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/18 "2023-08-15T21:16:43Z")
Jhwgwvhwb _twitter_ iwhdbebe _x_
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### Author:  [@TheGreenArtist](https://forum.makecode.com/u/TheGreenArtist)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/19 "2023-10-19T16:35:14Z")
Wow, to think this was one of my first replies ever… Time passes fast 🥹
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### Author:  [@TheGreenArtist](https://forum.makecode.com/u/TheGreenArtist)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/hello/15741/20 "2023-10-19T16:35:18Z")
And this was when a legend of the pixel art was born…
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