Coding. What is a C? What do the pluses mean?

#21 Guest_ElatedOwl_*

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 08:47 PM

I'm very impressed, but this video

makes me feel like its complicated just to complete basic tasks. I am very impressed by those capabilities, and it's clever how people make games like that, but the big question is, is it Object Oriented?

All the actual animation and stuff is javascript. HTML and CSS just set up the canvas and styling.
Javascript is based off of ECMAScript - as is actionscript. The languages are very, very similar.
Here's a link to a better example of a game with javascript and HTML5 - the original command and conquer.
http://www.ghacks.ne...ml5-javascript/

#22 bass cadet

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 09:01 PM

Yeah that's pretty sick.
I dunno, i'll probably stick with flash until the market significantly changes. i'm sure it will be a gradual change as well, because there are so many flash games already made. like were talking tens of thousands easily. It would be insane to limit support for all those outdated games, because I mean, people would still want to play them, or at least have access to them.

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 09:10 PM

I'm not implying flash will cease to exist and I'm sure it will be a while before it disappears from the web. (keep in mind adobe AIR is flash but simply for desktop support)

JavaScript still has its issue... or rather, browsers still have issues... but these days even MSIE is becoming standard compliant. IE10 boasts the ability to run javascript as machine code and web-kit browsers support multi-threading.

I'll give it a year before javascript is anywhere near a true successor to flash for game purposes.

#24 Dortz

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 08:55 AM

Are you forgetting the unity3d option?

Consider the possibilities of a full, 3d environment, inside a browser window.

Before I turn my post into a commercial, just go check it out and see what you think about it.

#25 Guest_ElatedOwl_*

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 09:45 AM

Are you forgetting the unity3d option?

Consider the possibilities of a full, 3d environment, inside a browser window.

Before I turn my post into a commercial, just go check it out and see what you think about it.

I'd never heard of that until now- thanks company research time (huehuehuehue). It looks like it doesn't have native browser support (I suppose could be a good thing depending on your view) and uses a browser plugin as an interpreter (Mono specifically). My only thing is - instead of running this as a browser plugin as a web option why not just go full desktop? If something is going to be usable via web you're accepting it has to be run inside of a (much more restricted) browser environment on the tradeoff that no additional software is needed. Not that I'm knocking the software, it seems awesome.

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 06:18 AM

I don't see how Flash will really survive as anything given the fact that windows 8 is snubbing their own answer to flash (silverlight) in favor of html5/javascript and Apple already pulled it off of their mobile devices. The only reason I can think of to use flash would be for just straight up animation like my little ponies. Do NOT attempt to aquire it as a proffessional application development tool. In 5 years you will be jamming a pencil down your ear canal when you realize you have to go back and learn Java/C# 'cause nobody wants you.

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:03 AM

Honestly, though I support HTML5 over flash, I think we'll be stuck with flash for a very long time, due to the backing of adobe, and people's unwillingness to change. Look how long IE6 hung in there, to speak nothing of the programs still being used written in something like BASIC. Hell, the cash registers at the local Fry's (a major electronics store) still run DOS.

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:44 AM

due to the backing of adobe

Adobe no longer supports the flash player plugin for web. (or rather, disco'd dev on it) They have a suit of tools called Edge that uses HTML5/java to animate things and are pushing Flash to the desktop with Adobe Air.

I don't see how Flash will really survive as anything given the fact that windows 8 is snubbing their own answer to flash (silverlight) in favor of html5/javascript and Apple already pulled it off of their mobile devices. The only reason I can think of to use flash would be for just straight up animation like my little ponies. Do NOT attempt to aquire it as a proffessional application development tool. In 5 years you will be jamming a pencil down your ear canal when you realize you have to go back and learn Java/C# 'cause nobody wants you.

The funny thing is MS providing a general underlying API for all applications in windows 8 (can't remember name for the life of me) that javascript will have access to. Yes, they are making javascript a desktop development language that will be able to have the same features as most languages.

We'll see how well that goes...

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:01 AM

Huh, well I'm out of the loop. :lol:

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:08 AM

Sorrie to interject, but I knew about the Adobe thing and Spleen didn't..

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 01:45 PM

I'd really suggest you take a look at other languages first if you're going to teach yourself. It's not something you'll learn over night and you have to be really patient, also, it's not easy, which is why I'm waiting till uni to learn C++. If I were you I'd buy some books on Python for beginners, read them back to front, cover to cover, take notes and try to build your own programmes. Maybe even before that you'll wanna try HTML, a good stepping stone between Python and C++ is Java as well, so by the time you get on to C++ you have learnt two other languages of varying strengths.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 07:14 AM

c ++ is a better version of c. idk what the pluses mean