Coding Skills in a Community

[Sim]

Who cares what he knows? I LIKE seeing how many different ways people come up how to do something

 

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. I really hope it is.

I was %100 serious [MENTION=71663]IllegalPigeon[/MENTION] Everyone lets there little feelings get in the way when talking about coding. If everyone would sit back and watch code get posted instead of complaining or giving logical justifications on there reason behind coding something a certain way and IGNORE THE DUMB **** certain discussions would last much longer and be much more beneficial to all.

 

ALL THIS REALLY HAPPENED:

Majority of ya'll wont understand the quoted discussion due to it being related to REAL TIME rendering.

 

My overall plan is to have minimum 3 classes that will handle a game.

Logic.cs which will handle the game's logic, key presses etc.

Renderer.cs which will render the objects / sprites.

Game.cs which will tie the two together.

 

I would suggest at least 4 classes.

Logic.cs (Game Rules)

UI.jc (key presses)

Render.cs (Graphics)

Game.cs

 

Why?

If you include your game's logic inside mouse and keyboard events you can't really re-use that class without stripping out the game's logic.

A few days later, he changed his stuff around and this happened

He posted his code of rendering code but called many functions over and over multiple times in the loop instead of loading that data into a variable for speed.

 

I would create a Custom Sprite class as well. Why?

Every time an image is rendered to the screen, it calls Aspect Ratio 4 times when you could store this information in the Custom Sprite class.

 

Instead of getting angry and someone not knowing the better way to do something or not knowing at all, I don't let my little feelings get the way of code and try to help as much as I can. People helped me a ton many years ago (10+) when it wasn't as easy to get support with your code. It was either books or wait for hours for "SOMEONE" you had no aim/aol/irc to come online.

[IllegalPigeon]

No one was questioning about THE WAY he was doing it, what was being stated was that he came here a few months back and gave people **** and called people names, claiming to be able to code and then coming here and asking a question that someone with 2 days of PHP knowledge could have done.

But fine, lets all start discussions about different ways to do X,Y and Z so you can see all of the interesting ways people can do the thing in question.

I don't care how many people posted different methods of achieving what he wanted and I never posted that anyone was wrong or doing something wrong. What I did do, however, is call him out for being simple and refuting his claims to be able to code from way back when.

Having said that, however, I would have helped him if I didn't dislike him. And, people were suggesting methods in that thread which were also ill-advised, I would have stepped in and explained to them WHY their methods are bad. But, that would have provided help, help to someone that does not deserve it.

Edited October 29, 2015 by IllegalPigeon

[SRB]

But fine, lets all start discussions about different ways to do X,Y and Z so you can see all of the interesting ways people can do the thing in question.

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If you're into that, go play golf.

 

Having said that, however, if I would have helped him if I didn't dislike him.

That hurt my brain! It's cool though, I understand - it's a struggle to perfect English when you're good at sports and popular in your age group. Totally get it.

[IllegalPigeon]

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If you're into that, go play golf.

That hurt my brain! It's cool though, I understand - it's a struggle to perfect English when you're good at sports and popular in your age group. Totally get it.

Whoopsie. Fixed. All of my friends within my age group are currently around my house playing sports, I took a break from winning to reply to this thread and was in such a rush, I forgot how to English.

Edit: Never seen this golf thing. This will be right up Sim's street, so many ways to answer menial questions!

Edited October 29, 2015 by IllegalPigeon

[Sim]

This will be right up Sim's street, so many ways to answer menial questions!

I am apart of this community, not that **** show.

 

 

Having said that, however, I would have helped him if I didn't dislike him. And, people were suggesting methods in that thread which were also ill-advised, I would have stepped in and explained to them WHY their methods are bad. But, that would have provided help, help to someone that does not deserve it.

 

Just responding to the ill-advised methods would have helped other members as well as him. I mostly troll threads and step in to try to keep things positive every now and then. I even posted one wrong php function since I hardly code in php that much anymore but Kyle replied with a reason of using the other function.

[KyleMassacre]

I even posted one wrong php function since I hardly code in php that much anymore but Kyle replied with a reason of using the other function.

well I won't take credit haha. Robot actually advised on the preg_replace_callback which I originally advised to possibly not use because of some potential speed performances (which I have not validated(I'm not the biggest fan of performing a benchmark myself)) but with the speed loss (alleged) can come great power.

I personally enjoyed the topic since it was pretty constructive for the most part even with such a little task. But I would have to say I kind of agree with sim here on this, and trust me illegalpigeon, I know exactly where you are coming from since I was there haha. But I would have loved to see your input on the matter as well.

It it was a good topic it's just too bad the OP wanted it closed because it was going somewhere.

[rulerofzu]

Where was it going is there sun and cocktails?

[Coly010]

[MENTION=71663]IllegalPigeon[/MENTION] I think what [MENTION=64603]Sim[/MENTION] is really trying to say is that people posting different methods to complete a task and having others rebuke it with logical justification helps everyone learn. I extremely dislike the guy that we were trying to help mainly because I've had enough run ins with him in the past, since before even you had run ins with him. He's publicly apologised to me twice on separate occasions because I tried to help him with code and offer him advice on how to conduct himself.

But despite that, if someone needs help, and I feel I can offer help, I'll help. It's not easy to get into programming for some people, I can tell that by looking around my uni class.

Just because you dislike one person does not mean you should spite the world to deny them help. In other words, no need to hold potentially good advice and solutions back from the community to try prevent one person from getting help.

Also [MENTION=64603]Sim[/MENTION] , my code now for it has moved the function into the sprite class. But I added a few more features into it and its turned into a slight mess I think, I might post the code again and see what people think, but I have a few ideas of how to make it a bit better.