Re: Inform: Tutorial


Sun, 10 Dec 1995 13:33:35 -0500

On 6 Dec 1995 17:05:03 GMT, JJF <J.J.Farmer-CSSE94@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:

>I am currently working on a tutorial for Inform newbies; I just wondered if
>there was anything anyone found especially difficult when they were newbies
>which I should cover in detail.

A basic explanation of syntax would be nice. I spent the first couple of
chapters of the Designer's Manual completely confused (I've only ever
programmed in non-object-oriented languages like Fortran).

I *do* hope that Graham gave Exercise 49 with tongue firmly in cheek,
though... If you don't have the DM in front of you, it goes like this:
"Write an Inform game in Occitan (a dialect of medieval French spoken in
Provence)." And the solution in the back is: "The details are left to the
reader. One must provide a new grammar file (generating the same actions
but from different syntax) and a very large LibraryMessages object."

French I could handle (if I could handle the exercise at all, which I
can't). But Occitan? <ahem> Well, let's just say that education in the US
isn't what it used to be.... ;)

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