Ask A Pro Renewal Project (and How You Can Help!)
#101
Posted 08 January 2015 - 04:56 PM
#102
Posted 08 January 2015 - 06:29 PM
KingofGamesYami, on 08 January 2015 - 04:56 PM, said:
#103
Posted 18 February 2015 - 06:47 AM
I'm interested in thoughts. Anybody have any strong feelings either way on having that specific tutorial pinned?
#104
Posted 18 February 2015 - 08:12 AM
#105
Posted 18 February 2015 - 09:48 AM
But of course, I realise different newcomers have different needs. For what it's worth, I do read stickies.
Obviously having a sticky is better than not having a sticky; though a "table of contents" might be more suitable than an actual guide (providing an index of links to the "better" guides out there, along with a suggested reading order). And before it comes up, I'd rather not see a "democratic" approach taken with the selection process, as this would only lead to people who don't know any better decrying perfectly good guides and promoting those which're frankly rubbish. Even if only one person (eg Lyqyd) has the final say on what's in the index, that's fine by me - the less the better.
In the absence of such an "index", I can't think of any better guide to sticky than Computer Basics I. But, while we're talking about that particular guide, I do have a couple of suggested alterations for it:
I feel that knowing about the computer labelling system in ComputerCraft is much more important than knowing how to edit and save scripts. Leaving that bit of info out until after (until the next guide, in fact!) feels like it could be taken as a bad joke when someone loses their work (or turtle's fuel reserve) because they weren't aware - and indeed, people who are already familiar with command line interfaces (and Unix commands in particular) are likely to skim or entirely skip over CB II anyway. Really I consider this labelling information to be so important that I'd be sticking it (or at least a link leading to it) up the top of the aforementioned "tutorial index" thread, were it to exist - perhaps under a "getting started" heading or something like that.
Second, although a relatively minor point, maybe stick a link to the next guide at the bottom of each CB post. I feel people are otherwise likely to forget that there is a next guide by the time they get down there. CB III would do well to lead on to some guides regarding eg turtles.
#106
Posted 18 February 2015 - 05:40 PM
#107
Posted 24 September 2015 - 02:16 AM
Don't be afraid to post in this fourm, that should be exagerated. If it is a minimal problem we will help with no grumbles!
At the same time do give us the information we need.
Also mark solved posts no matter how old, I am going through and see really old posts with new replies, which confuse me becuase they appear at the top. And some of these don't include a final solution so it is hard to determine if it has been fixed yet. Just my 2-Sense
Edited by TYKUHN2, 24 September 2015 - 02:16 AM.
#108
Posted 24 September 2015 - 11:18 PM
If you've got a simple problem, these two things can help you quickly find an existing answer.
Of course, this isn't possible in the current version, so just editing the title to add " [solved] " would be helpful.
TYKUHN2, on 24 September 2015 - 02:16 AM, said:
It might just be that very few people have questions right now. School is starting for a lot of us
#109
Posted 25 September 2015 - 01:52 AM
HPWebcamAble, on 24 September 2015 - 11:18 PM, said:
It might just be that very few people have questions right now. School is starting for a lot of us
Screw school! I can still Ask a Pro while in school! Infact I am!
Also, maybe the forum software is a different version, but I noticed (and I know it is a sin to say this name on this forum) OpenComputer's IP.Board supports the [Solved] tag as a small green icon.
#111
Posted 25 September 2015 - 02:48 AM
But in all seriousness I am noticing a distinct lack of questions on both forums (OC being newer though) which means I am sitting here watching youtube trying to find something to do.
#112
Posted 25 September 2015 - 02:32 PM
#113
Posted 13 August 2016 - 07:24 PM
Edited by Sewbacca, 13 August 2016 - 07:25 PM.
#114
Posted 13 August 2016 - 09:30 PM
Sewbacca, on 13 August 2016 - 07:24 PM, said:
It's more of, you should provide the simple solution when possible and expect varying and limited answers when using tables as objects (partly due to the vast number of ways of implementing objects in Lua)
#115
Posted 20 August 2016 - 11:42 PM
Lupus590, on 13 August 2016 - 09:30 PM, said:
Sewbacca, on 13 August 2016 - 07:24 PM, said:
It's more of, you should provide the simple solution when possible and expect varying and limited answers when using tables as objects (partly due to the vast number of ways of implementing objects in Lua)
And what is with questions, I asked? Often am I wanting OO-soloutins and more often OO-soloutions allow easier maintenance and easier development!
Edited by Sewbacca, 20 August 2016 - 11:44 PM.
#116
Posted 20 August 2016 - 11:55 PM
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