1. Tutorial??????????????????
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??????????????????
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??????????????????
> 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??????????????????
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. :)
