I started QBasic at about 12. . . I am nearly completely "self-taught" and I started making my ball program in Java at about 14-- I carefully thought out the algorithms by myself-- Because I couldn't find code about how to make balls accurately bounce off walls --at any speed without glitches.
Yeah, I see what you mean, Chris, "global" is not necessary when: all the variables are created outside of all the functions-- I did know that but-- I just wanted to create or delete any variables from within a function-- which can be called whenever from wherever-- so I could easily control/manipulate the memory consumption and variable usage. (Well whatever, I'll find a way I guess.) I admit, it was really dumb to force my opinion on all of you. (I was Not planning on saying what I did-- but it just wasn't my day. (if you know what I mean) I thought I would just ask one simple question and get the answer. lol But I accidentally let my frustration show in my replies. So stupid of me.) Anyways, I think I should just continue being a solo programmer. lol I'm too wild when it comes to programming that I think I need "my own space." If you know what I mean. stress_relieving_variable = 'Five-Hundred and Forty-Three Lily Hopping Ponies All Cooking Savory Spaghetti' dont_print(stress_relieving_variable) # Shshsh! Don't let anyone know I gave you # The ultimate key to game programming! # (Don't share it with anyone else, because # they will only want it for themselves! >:3 ) lolol! Thanks again for all your replies, suggestions, and the links. ; ) And sorry for making such a big scene-- I must do some chores. Goodbye. (You may abandon the thread.) Sincerely, Matthew On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:27:39PM -0700, Brian Brown wrote: > > Matthew N. Brown > > I googled. I guess this is yours? > > http://pastebin.com/kKXSgw8c > > > It's like "pygame.draw.line()" instead of just: "DRAW_LINE()" > > It's because of fallacies like this that your program would be > completely unmaintainable for anyone other than you. > > Classes and modules allow us to break our code into separate concerns > that other programmers can pick up and understand immediately (as can we > when we come back to something having forgotten what we wrote). > > They also tend to allow massive amounts of code re-use. If you wrote > only a proper 2D vector class (or downloaded one [1]) I reckon you could > halve the amount of code you had to write for your bouncing balls > program. > > To help you out, here is the A Byte of Python chapter about Object > Oriented Programming (ie. classes): > > http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python_en:Object_Oriented_Programming > > [1] http://www.supereffective.org/pages/Vector-2d-Vector-Library >
