Re: New Euphoria programmer
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Philip C Maurer wrote:
] Hello, everyone. I'm a thirteen-year-old in the US, and have recently
] started to program in Euphoria; that is, I've learned a bit about it. I
] haven't made any programs yet, but I think that this list will be helpful
] to me in my programming endeavors. Please send me any useful advice a
] novice programmer might possibly benefit from; any help at all is
] appreciated! [...]
Welcome to the Euniverse! I'm not around much longer, so I'll pass on some
good advice to the newcomer...
* Feel free to ask questions you feel are a little stupid. No-one here
bites your head off.
Even if you were to ask "I don't understand the '&' operator, what does
it do?", someone will tell you. (We might nibble a little if you ask
twice though! :) )
* The only people who fight here are the regulars who strongly disagree on
something (just like old men bickering ;) ), and deliberately obnoxious
people. Thankfully, there aren't any of the latter around at the
moment...
* The best way to learn Euphoria is to read the demo programs. The manuals
are useful too, but if you can follow the source code, you're off to a
flying start.
Read the shorter ones first. Run them in trace mode if you want to see
what they're doing. I think one of the demos is already set up to do
just that.
* Don't get put off if you read a post on this list that looks frightening
in its complexity. I still get scared reading the Win32 posts, and I've
been here at least 2_1/2 years! (I only wrote my first useful Win32
program on Monday).
* Euphoria isn't a hard language, so persevere if you keep getting stuck.
* ...but don't expect to be writing super-games or ultra-apps in a week...
* Finally; Don't forget: There's always someone on this mailing list
who's willing to help.
Have fun,
Carl
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