Lummox JR wrote:
Failure to spot usr abuse, which was the central problem in the first part of the post, means you don't qualify for intermediate. Also an intermediate programmer should have been able to figure out the problem in the second half, or at least glean something from it. The second part of that post appears to simply be bad savefile mechanics. I caught the usr abuse...and I think I gleaned something on the second half! Does that make the Lummox smile? Hiead | |
Lummox JR wrote:
Someone who doesn't use robust programming techniques hasn't been burned enough to know better. And heck, no small few of these people think they're qualified to help people in Code Problems and end up confusing matters even further by knowing not the first thing about what they're doing; they only make more work for the rest of us trying to clean up their mess. Gads it's tempting to name names there. This would be one reason I don't answer many coding questions :P My 'programming techniques', bluntly, suck. I can make Byond do quite a few pretty nifty things, but there is no way I'd want to try to show anyone how I did it. My code is generally inefficient and butt-ugly. It's quite a bit better than it was a few years ago, but it still is nothing to show off. Code quality/robustness: Internewbiate Ability to beat my code into eventual submission: Intermediate+ :P EDIT: My coding reminds me a bit of my geometry class in Junior High school. I never studied for tests, but I would generally manage to recreate most of the required proofs myself from what little knowledge I absorbed during class. It might take me four pages more than anyone who actually studied, but I generally got the correct answer :) | |
Hmm..i do like to keep on the downlow. But if theres beginner, intermediate and advanced i'd galdy say my 4 years of byond coding has taken me to expert/genius. Advanced would be an understatement. ;/
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Flick wrote:
My 'programming techniques', bluntly, suck. My code is generally inefficient and butt-ugly. Are you sure of that? A lot of the time I'll be doing something thinking that there has to be a more efficient way of doing it, but when I go out and find 'the best way' I find that I was doing it that way (or was at least on the right track). I tend to feel like I'm beating my code into submission, and I am, but I've realised that a lot of the time I'm beating it the right way and the only reason I have to beat it at all is because I don't have much experience. | |
After I learn a way to do something better I have a tendency to restart the whole code to make it more efficient.
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Hiead wrote:
Does that make the Lummox smile? Makes me giggle that Lummox JR's name is what it is. The definition of a Lummox: Lummox is slang for a clumsy, stupid person. Though the JR is (as far as I'm aware) unknown to the community (and no, it doesn't stand for junior), he is indeed anything but a Lummox as many would agree. :) Off-topic I know, I just had to voice that. ~Sinyc. | |
Pagemaster wrote:
Hmm..i do like to keep on the downlow. But if theres beginner, intermediate and advanced i'd galdy say my 4 years of byond coding has taken me to expert/genius. Advanced would be an understatement. ;/ I very much doubt it. There's no way anyone in the community surpasses "advanced". It's been my experience that most of the people who think they're advanced, or close to it, are mere newbies. That means you too. 4 years makes no difference in terms of solidness of your technique or code. In the same amount of time there have been people who haven't even shown any ability to learn yet. While you may or may not be any good, no one can tell because you've never posted code on the forums. Heck, after 4 years you don't even have a single game, demo, or library to your name, let alone any that are officially published. If you've never had your code stand up to (or wither under) peer review, how can you know how good a programmer you really are? Lummox JR | |
Rate me, oh might Rater! I'd say I'm here on this chain:
{ Newbie, Intermediate *, Advanced, Guru, Lummox } * That is me on the chain, I think. | |
Lol, I came to BYOND doing the exact same thing, although I haven't gotten around to learning C++, yet.
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Sniper Joe wrote:
Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced - Guru I've seen Flame Sage's code; he's no intermediate. Lummox JR | |
Audeuro wrote:
Rate me, oh might Rater! I'd say I'm here on this chain: From what I see in Adminx it looks fairly usable overall, although there were a couple of spots where I have doubts (such as spurious use of Find(), especially in one case where the code appears to be searching a list for the wrong thing). The excess of whitespace is a bit frightening, but doesn't really speak to skill. Looks like you know many though not all of the major pitfalls to avoid. I'd probably rate you somewhere above internewbiate. Lummox JR | |
Wait 'till ya see a new "Server Communication Libary"
It's basicly... Hub, Server A, Server B (easily add more) Server A (send message) --> Hub (redistributes) -Server A (you can choose to relacy back the message or not) Server B Also, I have it, whenever a game opens a port, it will announce it to the hub and also to every other game that is being hosted. (That has the approperate "World.topic()") Of cource, I had about 9 hours straight to work on this, because of a vacation ride a while back, but....... My sister stole my laptop, and now she's in SC. =( So what would you rate my Lummox? | |
I added a step for you XD