This topic is about my Blockland TorqueScript lessons that I'll be running online.
I'm leaving this up for reference, but the class is largely out of tutorial mode and is now more of a Q&A where people ask me questions and I show them what I know.
The 6-day course on how to script in general, the part for complete newbies, is over.
However if you want to join up, there's a lot of cool reference texts that could teach you stuff.WHAT IT IS:An online activity in which I try to teach TScript to whoever shows up in at least 1 hour a weeknight during July. We're going to start at the ultra-basic that will bore the pants off of intermediate users and try and work our way up.
WHEN IT IS:Mon-Fri at 8PM pacific standard time (which is GMT -8), or in other words Tue-Sat at 4AM GMT (sorry brits).
For your own GMT+/-? check UTC/GMT at the bottom of
this page and compare it to the current time in your region.
WHERE IT IS:Here.WHAT YOU NEED:This could be as short as 1 hour a day, so if you're not set-up and ready to go at the start of "class", I'm going to ignore you.
- You need to be good with computers. I don't have time to tell you how to make a new folder.
- Technically you need only to watch the stream. However, this is going to suck for you big-time.
- In order to get anything done, you'll probably need a working copy of BL. If you're afraid it's kinda messed up from what add-ons you've used, go for a fresh install. In addition to the stream, I'll also be hosting a server with the password ustream .
- I will not be paying attention to the server most of the time. In order to talk to me and ask me questions, it seems you'll need a ustream account so that you can chat to me over the ustream website.
- In order to read example code, as well as show me your code so I can fix it, you'll need to give me your e-mail address so I can invite you to share some Google Docs. If you really want to start checking the reference materials immediately, you can try PMing me here on the forums in case I check them (no promises), but otherwise just show up early to class and PM it to me in the ustream chat.
- Scripting itself can be done in any text editor (in fact we demonstrated this on day 1), but the computer can help you a lot with this, so I recommend you get some kind of script editor. For those using Windows, I recommend, naturally, that you use exactly what I use: Crimson Editor with my custom syntax file (which replaces the C# syntax files - I'm assuming the people taking this class don't program a ton in C#.) You can download Crimson Editor from the official site, then get my syntax files here (just unzip into Program Files/Crimson Editor/spec/).
Finally,
watch this video for how it's gonna work:
LOL RECORDED VIDEO It talks about moonedit which we were using before google docs, and I'll re-record it later, but you get the idea. Also watch the daily recaps to try and get up to speed.
