Can any body help me?

[pippin the mighty]

Can anybody help me learn some basic coding please?

[Peace Alliance]

Kind of hard to jump right into without experience. Definitely not something you can pick up quickly.

The best tutorials are here: http://www.w3schools.com/

RWL is written in PHP... So if thats what you're interested in, take a look.

[bjornredtail]

What do you want to build? Embedded systems, robotics? Go out, buy a microcontroller and learn a bit of C or (Gasp, I'm going to hate myself for saying this) Basic. Websites? See Peace's link, great basic web dev stuff. Desktop applications? Pick up a book on Python, read and work through the coding example for loops, variables and the like. If you are feeling adventitious, you could start learning how objects work too. Then use your book and other sources as a references for the base libraries. If you need graphical stuff, look into PyGTK. A little script to automatically do something? Get real good with the (preferably unix) command line and use Shell Script/Batch Files. Alternatively, learn Perl.

In any case, reading through working code, and messing around with it is most helpful.

[pippin the mighty]

Wow, you wern't kidding about the confusing part. I was trying to learn a bit of HTML, but dam it's more confusing.

[Sharptooh]

I know very minimal coding, all I really know is if you want to view coding on one web page say this one, go to view on the toolbar below the web adress and click on source, there's ton's ther i could never learn it all  :o

[windhound]

Ah...  but languages like PHP create webpages
if you view source ingame on rwl for instance you wont see the underworkings, the things that make the game run

languages like HTML and PHP actually arnt that bad to read through and figure out whats going on, in general anyways

to quote a recent post of mine though...

Hah..  have I got just the thing
old LC3 code...  maybe two years ago..  still had homework 1 on my university space

Line # (?) / Hex / Bin / Step # / ASM

Code Select Expand


(0000) 3000  0011000000000000 (   1)                 .ORIG x3000
(3000) 5260  0101001001100000 (   2)                 AND   R1 R1 #0
(3001) 5920  0101100100100000 (   3)                 AND   R4 R4 #0
(3002) 192A  0001100100101010 (   4)                 ADD   R4 R4 #10
(3003) E4FC  1110010011111100 (   5)                 LEA   R2 x3100
(3004) 6680  0110011010000000 (   6) LOOP            LDR   R3 R2 #0
(3005) 14A1  0001010010100001 (   7)                 ADD   R2 R2 #1
(3006) 1243  0001001001000011 (   8)                 ADD   R1 R1 R3
(3007) 193F  0001100100111111 (   9)                 ADD   R4 R4 #-1
(3008) 03FB  0000001111111011 (  10)                 BRP   LOOP
(3009) F025  1111000000100101 (  11)                 TRAP  x25


LC3 isnt as kind...  though it isnt too too bad when you learn whats going on

[pippin the mighty]

Kool :) That actually helps in a way :P I only know these:

<B> = Bold
<BR> = Skip a line
=Subject= is a title
[[Subject]] = a link

[Firetooth]

hahaha the only one I didn't know there was bold, and btw hers another one:

[[subject]]=a link, subject stands for whatever you want tae right ;-)

[Sharptooh]

I have a web designing program which doesn't use coding, but I'm not too good with it  :-\

[pippin the mighty]

What is it called?

[Firetooth]

Macremida dreamweaver, he let me use it, it's awesome! :) It cots alot unless you have a student package thoguh, better take I.T tehn lol

[pippin the mighty]

Lol, funny.

I could help you out with a few things if you need help?

[windhound]

Macromedia Dreamweaver, though Adobe ate them

And Dreamweaver will happily show you the underlying code, my favorite way to use dreamweaver is split screen, code on top and WYSIWYG on the bottom

Best way to start with dreamweaver is from the templates...  staring from scratch doesnt work all that well if you dont want to touch the html

[pippin the mighty]

Ok, can you run that by me again?

[bjornredtail]

Oh, just web stuff. Simple enough.
<tag> That is an opening tag.
</tag> That is a closing tag. All opening tags require one of these. ie <p></p>
<tag /> That is a tag does not require a closing tag, like <br />
<tag1><tag2> foo </tag2></tag1> That is the proper way to nest tags.

As far as what tags to use... Cheat! Use a website like w3c schools as a refrence (the real w3c standards are far too confusing for such use).

Building something fancy, like the RWL homepage, from scratch is a bit more difficult though. I don't have the graphical background to do a good job of stuff like that.

<B> = Bold
<BR> = Skip a line
=Subject= is a title
[[Subject]] = a link

That looks like wiki code to me. For that, just look at some of the how to sections of Wikipedia. That and edit some stuff in the sandbox.