I'd like to get into Coding.

Hello, Cloudsixteen. Recently, I have found myself wanting to learn how to code. I was wondering what kind of "programs" I should "learn" to code if I would want to code for C16. I am a noob, and realize I am ignorant with this. Thanks.

P.S. If you tell me which one, please tell me some good websites of where I should learn.

 

What exactly do you want to make?

 

I want to learn how to code plugins, and just learn how to "Run" Clockwork, basically.

 

Well, you'll have to learn Lua. Here's where you can get started.

http://www.lua.org/pil/1.2.html

 

This thread, in particular, which is also stickied in this board, has some varying langauge guides.
http://forums.cloudsixteen.com/index.php?topic=2036.0
The most organized one being the Garry's Mod LUA tutorial.

 

I'm currently learning Python on Code Academy. It's a good place to start.

And you don't actually code -for- CloudSixteen as such. When you make a plugin, a fix, etc, etc, you're making it for the entire HL2RP community. And not actually for CloudSixteen.

I'm personally learning Pyton and a few other languages before moving onto Lua, just for personal convenience. But, if you ever feel like learning others, http://www.codecademy.com/ is a great place to start.

 

Codecademy can be an okay beginning, but it is in no way a real guide to getting things together. You'll absolutely need to start thinking of projects within the skills you gain that you can do. Khan Academy has some good general courses, not sure if they've got anything on Python. There's a lot of different ways you can learn and it's important to try a few and see what works.

http://inventwithpython.com/chapter1.html
https://docs.python.org/3/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/
http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduction/
https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/

 

That confirmed it. You're the real Datzy. But I don't see why he'd want to start off with python when he wants to code for Gmod, probably best if he started with C##

 

Python's an easy language to learn from the get go, it's got simple syntax and you can deploy your programs immediately without any trouble. C# (or C++) is a compiled language, and has more complicated syntax. Lua looks more like a simple mix of the two in how it's written, most of the time, and if you can get your eyes working with Python then you'll not only have the right step for OOP, but you'll probably be able to adapt to Lua pretty quickly. C* languages aren't good to start with.

 

Hmm. Not bad Datzy...not bad. But I wouldn't say Lua is as simple, since when you deploy your program, and it doesn't work, it doesn't tell you what you did wrong.

 

What mitch. Lua tells you which file and which line an error pops up.

 

Yes it does. Both there, and in a Garry's Mod prompt if you're trying to do something and it's all fucky. If there's nothing 'wrong' in the code and it just doesn't work, then it wouldn't say anything in any language. It just wouldn't work.

No programming language is 'easy'. I just said it's easy to learn and get a grip of fairly quickly.

 

Not true. http://scratch.mit.edu/

 

>scratch

That's nowhere near the same thing.

 

I think if someone wants to get into programming, they should start with VB.NET or C#. Pretty much the only difference between them is the syntax. C# makes it easier to adapt to other languages. VB's syntax is useless outside of VB, but is more human readable.

 

If they claim it's coding why stop them. I myself love dropping boxes back and forth.

 

You won't be dragging and dropping boxes when you're writing something for Clockwork, you'll be doing stuff like this in a text editor

 

I was making fun of Scratch, and how ridiculously pointless it is towards actual coding.