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As seen on Blockland... printf("Welcome to the \"Programming MEGAthread\"!"); In this Megathread, feel free to discuss your latest work, get feedback, ask questions, find resources and learn more about the languages and logic for Programming. Since many old LEGO games involve scripting systems, feel free to also talk about scripting for video games and visual programming systems as well (such as Unreal's Blueprints). If you're new to Programming, here's some common Q&A to get you started: What specifically is Programming about? Programming is the act of writing instructions for your computer to perform. Turns out that while your computer can process things WAY faster than we ever could, the computer is actually fairly dumb; they need to be told exactly what to do and how to do it. Just in the same way as we humans can speak to each other a multitude of languages, there are many ways to communicate with your PC (and other devices such as a phone or games console). Every language is different, yet they all exist for the purpose of telling your computer what to do. What are some of the Programming Languages? In reality there's a very long, every expanding list, but here's just a taste of the languages you could learn and use, along with documentation. Assembly BASIC Bash Batch C C++ C Java Javascript LUA Perl PHP Python Ruby No programming language is the "one to rule them all" and every language is more-or-less founded on the same logic steps. The language is just the way you express your ideas; good programming is really about finding the "best" way to achieve a goal. I've never programmed before, where do I start? That's such a difficult question to answer, because it depends a lot on what you'd like to do as a programmer, how you learn, and what tools you have access to. Personally, I'd recommend that you set up a goal (such as "I want to make a infinite runner game"), and then you learn as you go, finding lessons for the things you're not sure about. Free General Website Resources: Programming Basics Code.Org Code Academy Code Conquest -more resources (including paid and language-specific as well as game engine tutorials) to be posted in the future- Your OP sucks and you should feel bad! Then help me rewrite it to be awesome! Give me resources to include, links to better documentation and other types of resources (such as compilers/libraries/toolkits), better descriptions of programming, tips for newbies and so on. I'd like this OP to be an ever-evolving flow of knowledge that can help people get started.

Goes over Commander Cold. Credit: @AaronBurner05 for the original face texture. Download: http://oresome.rockraidersunited.com/download/317

I once made a GUI interface using visual basic to track a killer's IP address.

I love how the images you posted are of Python and JavaScript. I learned a neat thing in Python recently. Normally when accessing a key-value pair in a dictionary, you have to safeguard it in a try...except block if there is a chance the key does not exist: try: myDict["myKey"] except KeyError: # The key does not exist, handle the error The neat thing I learned is all dictionaries have a get() method that returns the value or None if the key does not exist. This changes the above code into: myValue = myDict.get("myKey") if myValue is None: # The key does not exist I honestly wished I had learned this sooner. No Python book I have ever read (not even the book from college) taught this.

I had a fun exercise where I had to write code for primitive generation in OpenGL. Cone, Cylinder, Tube, Sphere, Torus. All working and all beautiful. Unfortunately I accidentally gave the torus flipped normals before I submitted the assignment. The renderer didn't have a wireframe so it was easily missed. Works now though.

Don't really care for this song, but I always used to join the Element team in Tony Hawk's Underground because it sounded so awesome in the Sponsor Video.

I actually think that he looks cooler with the Ice Planet helmet (no pun intended ) Thanks for using my face BTW

The surprised face is once again hilarious.

Save the textures as 8-bit, not 24-bit (or auto). I can confirm this to be the problem.

today's haul: ... this is getting ridiculous: