Formation setting for units

[Forboding Angel]

Wow and I had plans to learn how to code over the easter holidays...

Theoretically, in a weeks time with no previous experience and every day spent doing it, you could learn lua to some extent.

[url_00]

lol, lua is not a good first "programming language" to learn, as it is only a scripting language. And then you will suck at anything else you try to program. And lua is just really strange. its fits its function well, but its still really aweful imo, with all that dynamic typing and table things. Not to mention all the random stuff i have no idea what it does.

I suggest learning c++ or java for some nice classic oop. Then learn python because it is pwnage and it pwns lua big time.

Then why do we have a bunch of lua if python is better?
Who's idea was it to go lua instead of python?

[Argh]

Mine, ironically enough. Didn't code it, but I was the person who asked for it.

[KDR_11k]

lol, lua is not a good first "programming language" to learn, as it is only a scripting language. And then you will suck at anything else you try to program. And lua is just really strange. its fits its function well, but its still really aweful imo, with all that dynamic typing and table things. Not to mention all the random stuff i have no idea what it does.

I suggest learning c++ or java for some nice classic oop. Then learn python because it is pwnage and it pwns lua big time.

Then why do we have a bunch of lua if python is better?
Who's idea was it to go lua instead of python?

Python is not sandboxed like Lua, a Python script would risk having os.run("sudo rm -rf /") or whatever the proper syntax was.

[LordMatt]

I think bash shell is the best language, both for learning and for coding.

[Aether_0001]

can we change the custom formations so the different types of units end up in front and behind of the other types? As opposed to on different sides?

[kiki]

I think bash shell is the best language, both for learning and for coding.

hehe


Btw, to learn to program, please do not do something like get microsoft visual basic or qbasic. Almost anything with the words "basic" and "microsoft" in terms of programming sucks, imho. I suggest learning java and c++, as they are robust and oop. Then get python and blender and break it. Then, read all the lua tutorials. Then help me spam the lua forum to discover the seemingly undocumented secrets of lua.

[Vadi]

Lua is good. It's used in WoW scripting even afaik.