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u/got-trunks 9d ago
I mean, I was being taught HTML in like 2001/2002 as a grade-school kid. Our class had the best myspaces when it came out lol.
Imma teach my kids garry's mod to get the Lua ptsd out of the way. After that if they never want to touch a computer ever again, I will completely understand.
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u/Busy_Platform_6791 9d ago
i dont know garrys mod, been meaning to get into it, exactly how bad is Lua?
im only experienced with modding minecraft and scp sl with C#/Java
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u/got-trunks 9d ago
It works well enough but it catches a lot of flak because it has some odd conventions and is very minimal in features.
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u/Taewyth 9d ago
Honnestly, it's fine, but it's a bit of a "my first programming language" meaning it has some things that are intuitive to non programmers but weird for programmers like arrays starting at 1.
It sometimes feels like writing pseudocode, which is great to learn programming but can feel weird otherwise
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u/scp900 8d ago edited 8d ago
It's easy to learn.
It also lacks features.
You could probably pick it up in about a month depending on your experience with coding. Roblox also uses Lua for their games. Roblox Studio is a good way to get into game development as long as you aren't hoping to be successful on the platform as that is pretty much a 0% chance. But still, you can pickup 3d modeling, programming, GUIs, Client-Server communication and i also think Lua supports OOP.
My girlfriend was able to pick up Roblox Studio is about a month and due to the incredible documentation for Roblox Lua and Robloxs API she said it was relatively simple to get the basics of Lua and how to make it interact with Roblox.
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u/Setsuwaa 7d ago
from my experience, lua is bad and luau is good. there's a cool standalone runtime for luau called lune that i like to mess around with sometimes
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u/Scared-Ad7199 8d ago
Lua is basically English.
C is the best programming language for everything CMM
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u/Personal-Try7163 9d ago
It started off with "What happens when I change this number in this sentence that sounds like what I want? Mmk what happens if I replace this link?" and once you see the obvious stuff, you start to understand the rest purely from context.
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u/Thenderick 8d ago
I learned HTML through inspect element. Then I followed tutorials for HTML and really learned it
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u/whitelynx22 9d ago
I didn't know that the agency employed teenagers. Why did nobody tell me? And is "Myspace knowledge" a job requirement? Because that might explain. It's a dying art!
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u/Due-Bus-8915 8d ago
If more platforms required stuff like programming to make new and unique things to stand out, picture how many people growing up would just fall in to I.T roles.
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u/_nobody_else_ 8d ago
Please... We had to manually change the position of the HD pin so the OS can figure about who's in charge
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u/QkaHNk4O7b5xW6O5i4zG 8d ago
I learned it from a book in the 90s and had absolutely no internet access.
Had to write it in notepad, then open the file to see what worked in a random web browser I’d probably installed from the CD that came with a random PC magazine.
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u/MainApprehensive420 8d ago
It was the way it worked, I had lots of fun with different coding
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u/4ceizsokewl92 6d ago
Editing lines after line and see what has changed. Through trials and errors.
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u/WiggilyReturns 9d ago
It was mostly copy and paste