Inspector

I'm gonna be pretty bored for a while, I just had knee surgery and can't walk much.
I'm stuck in the house and am wondering to myself if I could learn programing for something useful in OSI/UO where would I start and what should I try to make?

Masscre

Make a replacement for EasyUO that has a very stable parser and low resourse compiler for the scripts. If you have any time left over from this you could write a script for a artifact creater for UO and send it to osi so that might get the hint instead of always making more eye candy that looks just like th old eye candy with new colors. LOL ok now i am done ranting

Red Squirrel

C++ is a good place to start if you want to learn programming. Just be careful not to fall in the M$ trap. Try to stick to the ansi / STL stuff, its better.

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freddy

From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X: Page 1
From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part II: Page 1
From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part III: Page 1

pretty interesting article.

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12TimesOveR

I would suggest watching paint dry instead.

H8full

So let me ask this question. I have no idea about any of the computer lingo like C+ etc.... Where would be a good spot for me to start out? I want to get the basic knowledge of computer language so I can write better scripts and stuff.

z0rak

programming's mostly the same regardless of the language. but it's kinda hard to really learn it without a fun project. find something you want to write a program for, then pick a language and slowly figure out wtf you're doing.

then, once you're done with a good chunk of it (assuming it's a relatively large project), you'll be disgusted with all the little hacks you put in, and you can start over and do it right (refactor) and make much prettier code and be utterly impressed with how much you've learned.

solitude

I love C# and Mac's are shit, complete shit. As far as starting to learn any program language. Google rules all.

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Masscre

Get a good book on structured program basics. This would be a great place to start and in the process forget (and i mean REALLY forget) everything you have learned so far. Try to stay away from basic unless that is all you have a chance to learn, but structured programming in any language is structured programming. Stay away from goto's they are mans way of letting us continue to be lazy. Learn to use true layering of subs. Actually a good start to learning structured programming would be to learn to perfect Flow charting and make the flow chart into a program. I can add more info if anyone wants to listen? I am not perfect by no means, but I look over alot of scripts and they are horrible and for anyone besides the author are horrible to edit and make changes. Because of the fact that they do not show a structured main and then listed subs. Everything is just littered here and there and you have to TRY to follow the authors way of thinking to be able to do any editing. In a structured envirment you should have your declared's first and the after those you should have the main and latter you should have your subs and nested subs. Also always comment each of your subs so you and anyone else helping with your project can follow what you are doing. Well for now I will drop my rants Thanks for listening all

freddy

You could always read K&R

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