How to even begin coding

FrankyPlaysGames · 2014-03-11T07:56:28.000Z

Anybody have some quick links or advice on how to begin coding and helping develop Cataclysm?
I’m using Windows 7, and don’t even have the source code or JSON yet. Don’t even know where to get them.
Probably after I understand a bit I’ll just delete this thread to stop some clutter.

John_Candlebury · 2014-03-11T10:13:39.000Z

Forget about Cataclysm, buy a book on C, download codeblocks start doing what the book says.

CIB · 2014-03-11T11:03:00.000Z

I suggest you start with a simpler language like python. C++ is one of the hardest languages to learn, so it’s not a great choice to start with.

i2amroy · 2014-03-11T15:53:17.000Z

If you want to start helping right away the JSON few are fairly self explanatory and take virtually no actual coding knowledge. For learning to actually code the place I suggest starting is right here. Python is a much easier language to learn than C++, and once you know one language it’s extremely easy to learn another. Once you have some of the basics down try looking around the Cata files and trying to figure out how people did various things, then just go from there.

FrankyPlaysGames · 2014-03-11T19:43:33.000Z

Thank you for your answers, everyone.
I’ve actually ‘coded’ in a silly Zombie Combat Medic, and was trying to figure out how to create it a healing special ability for it.
Gave up though, learning Python is the next step for me. After that, if I am interested enough I might buy a book on learning how to code C++, maybe.