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Lesson 7: Flow Control -- Looping

Posted by kellessdee, 05 January 2012 - - - - - - · 162 views
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Lesson 7: Flow Control - Looping

Ah, looping. Loops, in my opinion, are what separate a "script" from a "program." So, here comes the obligatory...

What is a loop?

Think of the word loop, in the terms of a song loop -- we say a song is looping when it repeats, once it reaches the...


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Lesson 6: Flow Control - Decision Making

Posted by kellessdee, 22 December 2011 - - - - - - · 106 views

Lesson 6: Flow Control - Decision Making

In the previous lesson, I taught you about boolean logic. Hopefully, you have a good basis to the concept. This lesson will actually put that logic to good, practical use.

This lesson is the first part in the series on Flow Control.

Now, for the obligatory "What is flow control...?"
At...


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Lesson 5: Intro to Boolean Logic

Posted by kellessdee, 22 December 2011 - - - - - - · 148 views

Lesson 5: Intro to Boolean Logic


You may remember from Lesson 2 (Data types) the "Boolean" data type. If you don't, that's okay; we didn't do much with them. But after this lesson, I promise: you will be on your way to becoming a boolean master. Money back guarantee! (yes, I do know you...


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Learning Ruby -- Lesson 4: Variables, User Input and Type Conversion

Posted by kellessdee, 16 December 2011 - - - - - - · 140 views

Lesson 4: Variables, User Input and Type Conversion

So, upto this point, we have only been working with literal values. A literal value, is a static value; hardcoded by the programmer. For example:
1
2
10.5
"String"
are all literals.

But, what if you aren't sure what the final...


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Learning Ruby -- Lesson 3: Arithmetic Operators

Posted by kellessdee, 16 December 2011 - - - - - - · 131 views

Lesson 3: Arithmetic Operators

Arithmetic Operations are going to be the first methods you learn about in these lessons. Just like the name implies, arithmetic operations are simple mathematical operations: adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, etc.

These are method calls that can be invoked on...


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Learning Ruby -- Lesson 2: Objects, Objects, Objects aka Ruby's Data Types

Posted by kellessdee, 16 December 2011 - - - - - - · 108 views

Lesson 2: Objects, Objects, Objects aka Ruby's Data Types

You've probably heard people talk about "object-oriented" languages or programming (and you may even know what this means already). Well then, what is an object-oriented language? It simply refers to a programming language that is...


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Learning Ruby -- Lesson 1: Setting up a Ruby Environment

Posted by kellessdee, 16 December 2011 - - - - - - · 95 views

Lesson 1: Setting up a Ruby Environment

In these lessons, I will be working with the official Ruby interpreter. However, if you'd rather work through RPG Maker, that is definitely possible and for that reason, I will tell you how to do both.

Personally, I think everyone interested in really...


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Learning Ruby -- Contents

Posted by kellessdee, 16 December 2011 - - - - - - · 83 views

Learning Ruby - Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Installing Ruby
http://www.rmxpunlim...by-environment/
[table="Lesson 2: Objects,...


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Learning Ruby -- Preface

Posted by kellessdee, 16 December 2011 - - - - - - · 106 views

Learning Ruby

kellessdee here,

I have been teetering on verge of writing a full tutorial on ruby scripting for a while, and have had difficulty deciding how to tie this into learning RGSS as well. In the end, I decided that one should not skip out on...


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Not too much

Posted by kellessdee, 14 April 2011 - - - - - - · 79 views

I know this isn't really an update or anything new, however I *think* I have finished my party follow system, bug-free :)



It took a while to get the character refreshing to work properly, as I use 3 different character sets for each character (walk, run and standing) Although I could probably make the...






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