Well I Just finished reading chapter 1 of the Dm guide. Read it nice and slow took me about 30mins to do everything.
I learned what a mob is(its the player character's avatar.
I learned how to make verbs and turfs.
I learned about procs.
I also made my own little mini maze game.
After learning all of this I am going to study this whole chapter again for about a week and play around with what I know so far. I am going to make more mazes, verbs that you can you use to say to the world. e.g this is is for when hit a dead end in the maze...
mob
verb
ponder()
world << " [usr] wonders where he went wrong..."
I am also going to draw better turfs and player mobs.
I will let everyone know when I start chapter 2
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 Jan 15 2007, 7:40 pm
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Jan 15 2007, 8:19 pm
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Deadron
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Good approach! I've read many programming books, and the DM guide is probably the best beginner book I've ever read.
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Good luck on that.
I actually learned some basics from reading the My First World project files, then later on I went and studied the DM guide. | |
I'm happy you're learning to program rather than ripping sources. :)
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Good method taking it slowly, that way you make sure you know everything inside out and then the next chapter will not be as difficult to understand.
Good luck with it! | |
Deadron wrote:
Good approach! I've read many programming books, and the DM guide is probably the best beginner book I've ever read. It does help when the creator of the language creates the guide as well. You are right, the DM guide is about the best out there. All around, DM is FAR better documented than pretty much every other language. I guess it helps that it is all inclusive with no extra libraries required(Unlike C++ and many other languages). | |
Good luck!
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