Plan for Bil Simser

The Torque Cookbook. 'nuff said.

Lately I've been turned onto the Cookbook type books out there (specificially the C# ones now). I spent sometime hunting down the various O'Reilly (and others) cookbook series and found them to be excellent on presentation.

If you haven't seen a cookbook, it offers a definitive collection of solutions and examples in a domain language (C++, Perl, C#, whatever). Recipes range from simple tasks to the more complex, and are organized with respect to the types of problems you'll need to solve as you progress in your experience as a programmer. Nearly every recipe contains a complete, documented code sample showing you how to solve the specific problem, as well as a discussion of how the underlying technology works and a discussion of alternatives, limitations, and other considerations where appropriate.

So I'm proposing the idea of constructing/collaborating/consolidating the snippets we all know and love into one place in the form of a Torque Cookbook. Simple, small, focused solutions to specific Torque problems. This is not "How do I make a game" but "How do I add random player start locations" or "How do I let the user take a screenshot". Stuff like that which is categorized and organized, all with sample code (I think the sample code is a must as more often than not, we have a post of "do this and this and magic will happen").

I've started a thread in the forums here if you're interested in continuing the idea. See you there!