1. Tutorial??????????????????
- Posted by David Roach <roachd_76 at YAHOO.COM> May 08, 2000
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I have been looking for a tutorial for euphoria for a good nine months now. I have come away empty handed on all attempts. Why is there no good tutorial for Euphoria? The ones for WinLib32 are great. But I just can't seem to find one for the programing language itself. I find lots of dead links to tutorial of past.... If I had the knowledge I would make one myself. But having only 9 months of programing experience. I doubt that is possible. Hmmm? Maybe I could start one with what I know now and add stuff to it as I learn. Yes I think I will do that. In the mean time does anyone know where I can get my hands on some information to help me with this excellent language? I am always comparing this language to that of Latin. Great but not much info out there to help you learn it. Ohh I need to stop and Go to bed. Swing shifts don't like me much. Thanks for your time. Dave Roach
2. Re: Tutorial??????????????????
- Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at MAIL.COM> May 08, 2000
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Hi Dave, I got my basic Eu skills from "A beginners guide to Euphoria". Am not positive, but I believe it is included with Eu, in the tutorial folder. Also, be sure to read through the docs for Eu, there is invaluable info there. I believe there is also a compiled html version of the same tutorial in the RDS archives. But by far.. the best way to learn would be to just try and code stuff. That's how I learned. When you get stuck then you refer to the EU RefMan, or the tutorial. It's much easier to learn when you have something to apply it to.. Find things in the archive that interest you and just try and modify them, make em work the way YOU want. I personally think that the tutorial is fine. Without the hands-on of discovering yourself, you would become accustomed to relying on the tutorial, making it harder for you relate what you've learned. Rather than approaching a problem and understanding why you would need to do something a certain way, you would just do it that way because you were told to. As an analogy, if your father always sheltered you from ever experiencing anything bad, you would grow up, knowing that it is bad, but not really WHY it is bad. So... just DIG IN!! Just my opinion though. *SMILE* Also, there's a list full of people willing to help.... And like my 2'nd grade teacher used to say.... It's not stupid to ask questions, it's stupid not to.. Chris > I have been looking for a tutorial for euphoria for a good nine months now. > I have come away empty handed on all attempts. Why is there no good tutorial > for Euphoria? The ones for WinLib32 are great. But I just can't seem to > find one for the programing language itself. I find lots of dead links to > tutorial of past.... > > If I had the knowledge I would make one myself. But having only 9 months of > programing experience. I doubt that is possible. Hmmm? Maybe I could start > one with what I know now and add stuff to it as I learn. Yes I think I will > do that. In the mean time does anyone know where I can get my hands on some > information to help me with this excellent language? > > > I am always comparing this language to that of Latin. Great but not much > info out there to help you learn it. Ohh I need to stop and Go to bed. > Swing shifts don't like me much.
3. Re: Tutorial??????????????????
- Posted by wolfgang fritz <wolfritz at KING.IGS.NET> May 08, 2000
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> I have been looking for a tutorial for euphoria for a good nine months now. > I have come away empty handed on all attempts. Why is there no good tutorial > for Euphoria? Try this, it's for EU version 2, but not that much has changed. http://members.aol.com/Euphoria2/abgte2.zip Wolf
4. Re: Tutorial??????????????????
- Posted by "R. W. D." <filexfer3 at JUNO.COM> May 08, 2000
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On Mon, 8 May 2000 10:26:08 -0400 David Roach <roachd_76 at YAHOO.COM> writes: >I have been looking for a tutorial for euphoria for a good nine >months now. >I have come away empty handed on all attempts. Why is there no good >tutorial Learn by doing. Set yourself a major project, say, an original game or a port of a library. When you get stuck, solicit help from the list. >Maybe I could start >one with what I know now and add stuff to it as I learn. Or that. >Yes I think I >will do that. In the mean time does anyone know where I can get my hands on >some >information to help me with this excellent language? My Euphoria came with two pretty good documents, REFMAN.DOC and LIBRARY.DOC >I am always comparing this language to that of Latin. >Great but not much >info out there to help you learn it. Not much info on Latin?? Caeser's "Gallic Wars" is widely available in the original Latin, as is a bunch of Ovid. Sit down with copy of Gallic Wars and a Latin dictionary and write (1) a page worth of Latin and then (2) the English translation. You'll learn Latin. Likewise, write a couple of pages or two of original Euphoria code and in 9 months you'll wind up with (uhhh) 32000+ lines of Euphoria code. You'll learn Euphoria. (Though I tried that with C and wound up with a headache.) >Swing shifts don't like me much. Too easy. >Thanks for your time. You're welcome. :)