Thought I should do one of these.

Hey, I'm Stiches, or more commonly known by people who know me, Atebite, or the guy that changes name a lot (probably). I'm currently huddled up in ApexGamingRP where I slave work as a developer. I've been with them ever since I started roleplaying, which if I remember correctly is somewhere around or above three years ago now (I haven't really kept track of it).

I play way too many games and I'm a very fresh CW developer. And even though I like roleplay, I find myself spending time coding instead of doing that increasingly more often, and for longer periods of time.

so hi.

 

To be honest, you might be a new Clockwork developer, but I think you aren't a new developer.
Welcome aboard.
The ride never ends.

 

Started learning Lua by myself last summer.

 

Teach me, please.

 

You can always ask me for help, you know? xD
Anyway, I'll start by giving you this tip:
Programming is nothing.

People tends to see programming as something as hard as hell, while the only difficulty is getting the base knowledge on the programming language.

Afterwards, it's just functions and variables, and practice. (Speed, mistakes, additional knowledge, actually absorbing what you learn, learning new workarounds and improving problem solving as you practice.)

 

Pretty much. I used the book to learn the basics and then I just broke off, tried to do some stuff I thought would be cool in Gmod. The wiki is actually really good help and to my great surprise looking at code others have made actually helps when you know the stuff they've used and how they've used it.

I only really picked up coding in Clockwork around November, and got really into it in December. Things just kinda made sense to me.

What kuro says is definately true as well. Also, a great comment I once read about bug fixing which I can't remember exactly went something like this:

When programming, you have to imagine the most retarded person possible, and then foolproof your code for someone x100 times stupider than that.

 

if u ever cant figure something out, take a break and the answer might come to you suddenly


worked for me when starting java

 

Another tip regarding general programming:
If you don't need it, or someone who's going to use your code won't need it, then don't do it.