Anone Else Lazy Like Me???
by Shawn "Kernel" Kelly · in Torque Game Engine · 01/09/2005 (2:01 pm) · 9 replies
I just got the book this Friday and have read chapters 1-3 already. Not bad so far.
I was wondering though - is anyone else lazy like I am and not taking the time to enter in the sample code as directed? I mean, it's all there on the CD so why bother typing it in at all?
I guess the question I'm asking is: Does anyone else think it's a bad thing to have the code so readily available? Is it hurting my (and possibly others) ability to learn Torque Script because I'm not typing it in, just skimming it for the concepts and loading it off of CD to see the results?
I was wondering though - is anyone else lazy like I am and not taking the time to enter in the sample code as directed? I mean, it's all there on the CD so why bother typing it in at all?
I guess the question I'm asking is: Does anyone else think it's a bad thing to have the code so readily available? Is it hurting my (and possibly others) ability to learn Torque Script because I'm not typing it in, just skimming it for the concepts and loading it off of CD to see the results?
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#2
01/10/2005 (4:53 am)
When you get to Chapter 4, you make a basic FPS and you have to type in all the code yourself.
#3
01/10/2005 (6:28 am)
I don't like copying code from a book either but I do it because if you type it you are learning even though you don't think you are. You are learning how the code is structured and the syntax so it is good to type it in. Like Niko said in CH.4 you have to type it in anyway.
#4
I cannot fine a EmagaCh4KitInstall.exe file but I'll look further.
01/10/2005 (5:44 pm)
That's what I was thinking when I got to Chapter 4 also, but there is a chapter 4 folder on my CD, and everything seems to be there.I cannot fine a EmagaCh4KitInstall.exe file but I'll look further.
#5
01/10/2005 (6:33 pm)
Ok, found it on the CD. The CD install aparently extracts everything into the CH4 folder for you - evenb the completed scripts.
#6
01/10/2005 (6:41 pm)
Later in the book, you have to piece everything together, and nothing is included on the cd. (as in a final build)
#7
01/30/2005 (4:43 pm)
Dude don't be lazy if you actually wanna learn you should do it. I'm the same way. I think that if i just get books and keep them around me some process of cell mitosis will take place and the knowledge will get in my brain. unfourtunately science hasn't evented touch learning yet. if you type it you're doing it. and if youre doing it you're learning. 
#8
01/30/2005 (4:56 pm)
I always type in code rather than just using the CD's included.
#9
I actually did start typing stuff in with chapter 4... then work sent me to Cancun... damn them :)
I took the book with me and read on the plane and at other times (up to chapter 6) when not out enjoying the sun, but since I've gotten back I haven't typed the stuff in yet. Mostly because I'm ramping up for the next phase of a work project and I've been playing Resident Evil Code: Veronica X on the PS2. Sometimes you just have to play games too :)
I'm also reading AI For Game Developers so I'm not just being stagnant.
01/30/2005 (6:10 pm)
"Touch Learning" is an interesting concept :)I actually did start typing stuff in with chapter 4... then work sent me to Cancun... damn them :)
I took the book with me and read on the plane and at other times (up to chapter 6) when not out enjoying the sun, but since I've gotten back I haven't typed the stuff in yet. Mostly because I'm ramping up for the next phase of a work project and I've been playing Resident Evil Code: Veronica X on the PS2. Sometimes you just have to play games too :)
I'm also reading AI For Game Developers so I'm not just being stagnant.
Torque Owner Shawn "Kernel" Kelly