Coding Forum

[Garrador]

Someone brought this up here. Well. It is a good idea. I'll quote a comment:

BTW Why don't we have a programming forum on Interlopers? There are enough people here who understand this stuff.

And we ARE getting alot of question now and then.

[longshanks]

That was me and it's totally needed. We could build a great coding community here.

[Jman]

Yeah, I can compile the code, but I'm semi retarded when it comes to coding it. :/

[Mr. Happy]

I'd say yes! although id have nothing to contribute

[Jest@]

Problem is, coding isn't the kind of thing it's easy to share big tutorials and explanations with. beyond the basics & 'practicalities'(knowing the language,getting compilers working etc) i'm not sure people would have much to talk about. And bigger, better sites serve that purpose well enough.

Furthermore, for Source coding, the ground is already very, very well covered in the HLCoders email list, run by valve, which Mike Durand (the Valve mod community 'liason' as it were) often replies to very competently. Anyone into Source programming, I reccomend you sign up there, and you'll never feel much of a need for a forum for it. Intelopers could probably never compete with that imho.

Unlike,say, modelling, it's the kind of thing where one person's query or problem (beyond the basics like getting the compiler working or figuring out syntax, as I said) probably won't be of that much value to anyone else, they tend to be overly specific questions, or things that coders think you should have already figured out yourself.

imho.

edit: just saw the mod-talk post that (presumably?) spawned this one; i think my criticism still stand: most of the programming questions that get asked round herwe are more general ones, for which much larger, better non-Source-specific resources and communities already exist

[longshanks]

The email list is nice but at the same time rather annoying, I hate having to sift through loads of email for a answer to a problem, also there is no search function for archived mails..forums are just so much easier to deal with.

[Jest@]

That's very true, I just dont think there's ever a chance interlopers could supplant HLCoders list. We dont have *that* many coders. The benefit of the list is that it drops in the top coders' inboxes every day, so people like amckern for example, who's here on the forums now and again, always gets the HLCoders digest and very often has something to say. A lot of the coders, including guys like Garry of GMod have replied more consistently to the list than they've replied to coding-qeustions on forums (from what I've seen).

[Blink]

Well I've made the forum at long last, if you guys make use of it then that's great.

Onwards!