Programming Megathread

[Majorth]

I'm learning Python through Codecademy and books.

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[Headcrab Zombie]

When the usual case is no exception

But that's not the situation that I encountered that you replied to with "in python that's the preferred way to do it"
As made evident by the

forgetton of exceptions

part

[Foxscotch]

But that's not the situation that I encountered that you replied to with "in python that's the preferred way to do it"

yeah, I guess
why was it happening?

[Headcrab Zombie]

why was it happening?

It was in a method that was converting a DataTable from an SQL queries into a list of class objects, the query results had a bunch of null values and it was trying to convert to a type that can't hold nulls.

[News]

i wanna learn torque for obvious reasons, is learning C# (because there are better guides) a better gateway to torque?

[Foxscotch]

i wanna learn torque for obvious reasons, is learning C# (because there are better guides) a better gateway to torque?

probably not C#, unless you're also interested in C# for other reasons
C# is heavily class-based, and to my knowledge TS is only barely object-oriented at all, right?

[Headcrab Zombie]

I don't think a language can be "barely" object-oriented, I can't think of anything that would fit that description, afaik it either is oo or isn't.
Either way, Torque definitely is; everything you can see and interact with is an object; an instance of a class.
You can also make script objects and assign them a class field, and make methods specific to that class.

With that being said there's really no point in "learning one language so you can learn another"
If you want to learn a specific language, then just learn it.

[GoldenLego]

I've gotten into, Lua, C++, C#, and recently gml. (game maker languange) Although I've forgotten alot of the other three because it starts to blend in. ;c

[Foxscotch]

I don't think a language can be "barely" object-oriented, I can't think of anything that would fit that description, afaik it either is oo or isn't.
Either way, Torque definitely is; everything you can see and interact with is an object; an instance of a class.
You can also make script objects and assign them a class field, and make methods specific to that class.

oh
I wonder why I thought it wasn't

also, by "barely," I meant that it existed but wasn't very full-featured

With that being said there's really no point in "learning one language so you can learn another"
If you want to learn a specific language, then just learn it.

I think he's worried about there not being enough good-enough resources for torquescript
idk how much that is the case, but I'm sure that it would be a lot easier to learn one undocumented language from example if you already knew another language

[Flame]

we're learning java at uni right now. basic programming stuff. i've taken up to coding an animu waifu bot for my discord server with the discord4j unofficial api

[otto-san]

I think he's worried about there not being enough good-enough resources for torquescript
idk how much that is the case, but I'm sure that it would be a lot easier to learn one undocumented language from example if you already knew another language

blockland is probs one of the best places to learn torquescript in the universe so he's off to a good start
pretty sure we have some of the greatest wealth of torquescript knowledge and general torque engine knowledge, and a decently active forum specifically (gg baldsport) for tapping into that wealth

i'd say if you wanted to learn torquescript you're in good country here

[Waru]

blockland is probs one of the only places to learn torquescript in the universe so he's off to a good start

fixed

[Otis Da HousKat]

Blockland is the only reason to learn Torquescript at all lol

[Foxscotch]

oh no

it got worse





(p.s. I guess I'm gonna use this thread for stuff like this, and the creativity thread for things that actually would belong in creativity. it would be cool if everyone else did the same but I'm not ur boss so)

[devildogelite]

I'm working on doing a S-DES program that's due Sunday night right now, it's not to rough. But intro to cryptology has to be my least favorite class not involving ethics/laws. My other class Administration Policies we're writing up a security plan following all of the guidelines in NIST Special Publication 800-53. That stuff really sucks