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Replace recommendation for Harvard course with more accessible alternative(s) #11420

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Imagine you are an aspiring game developer. You have an idea to make a pixel art character in paint or whatever and want to press left and right arrow keys to make it move! You finally decide to download Godot to get started, open the documentation for the first time… and it tells you to do a 10-week Harvard course. Bye bye motivation!

There's two places where the Harvard course is recommended, here and here. I get that the free course can be a great way to learn programming, and that this method may work for some. But I don't know any developer who learned to program like this. Normal people simply start by opening the script editor and writing a line of code and watching a bunch of tutorials and winging it from there on out.

What I'm getting at is the accessibility of the Harvard course. It's free, and that's great, but due to its structure and length and the fairly complex language it uses, it is not accessible by any means.

Suggestion:
Remove links to the Harvard course, and add links to accessible tutorials for the sake of getting started – not for the sake of becoming a master at programming.

I'm not the right person to suggest what are accessible tutorials for learning how to write GDScript because I myself am too deep into it, but gdquest and brackeys come up a lot. Maybe those, plus a few more?

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