[jon.kiparsky]

extremeblueness, on 02 January 2013 - 10:19 PM, said:

You finally broke through. You mean creating my own object classes.

Yes, exactly!

Sorry if I sounded impatient, but from what I'm seeing I was pretty sure I could get it across eventually. Yes, writing your own classes to represent the world you're creating is exactly what I was talking about - and mac and Martyr, too.

So a piece of Terrain has certain characteristics, and for a Mountain they're particularly these values, and this here is a Mountain, so it has these values. So you don't have to tell each PalmTree to be green - it knows that already.

[extremeblueness]

Well, this was my first Swing program, so I'm fairly certain that I'll learn (especially with all the help here at D.I.C).

edit: I really need to start using the quote and reply button, at the rate I get ninja'd here. Guess its a good thing, because that means more people are willing to help me out.

This post has been edited by extremeblueness: 03 January 2013 - 08:22 AM

[jon.kiparsky]

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Well, this was my first Swing program, so I'm fairly certain that I'll learn

The important thing is that you're willing to make mistakes. If you're always making mistakes, and they're new mistakes every time, then you know you're always learning something new.

[extremeblueness]

jon.kiparsky, on 03 January 2013 - 04:22 PM, said:

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Well, this was my first Swing program, so I'm fairly certain that I'll learn

The important thing is that you're willing to make mistakes. If you're always making mistakes, and they're new mistakes every time, then you know you're always learning something new.

I am willing to make mistakes, even if I don't understand the error messages every time.

[modi123_1]

extremeblueness, on 03 January 2013 - 10:52 AM, said:

I am willing to make mistakes, even if I don't understand the error messages every time.

A solid parable for life...

[Gorian]

extremeblueness, on 03 January 2013 - 08:52 AM, said:

jon.kiparsky, on 03 January 2013 - 04:22 PM, said:

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Well, this was my first Swing program, so I'm fairly certain that I'll learn

The important thing is that you're willing to make mistakes. If you're always making mistakes, and they're new mistakes every time, then you know you're always learning something new.

I am willing to make mistakes, even if I don't understand the error messages every time.

This. This will take you far in life, and applies to EVERYTHING you do in life. It separates you from the masses who come here for help, only to downvote everyone pointing out their mistakes and how to fix them, and ultimately decide their erroneous ways are best. We have so much opportunity in life to learn from others. We just need to be humble enough to learn from those who already learned these lessons.

[ishkabible]

anytime you repeat the same code few times, you should look for a way to *not* repeat yourself. loops, arrays, functions, objects, data structures, recursion, etc... they all help you not repeat your self

[carnivroar]

extremeblueness, on 02 January 2013 - 03:42 PM, said:

I'd completely forgotten about multi-dimensional arrays.

extremeblueness, on 02 January 2013 - 08:19 PM, said:

You mean creating my own object classes.

And you are writing 250,000 lines of code - why?