How did You learn JASS?

[Andrewgosu]

Basically the title says it all, how did you learn or get into JASS. Was it tutorials, a friend, by yourself?

What do you recommend for a total beginner in JASS, like me? What is the best way to learn JASS. Vexorian Tutorial? (Btw, I have looked that)

Thanks for your time.

 

[bugi_bi]

i have learned it in school...lol...
hmm i learned c(++) in school and the logic of programming, and when i saw JASS, it was easy to comprehend...

 

[emjlr3]

practice makes perfect

 

[WastedSavior]

practice makes perfect

sure, you can perfect local variables and nothing more because you have no source of progress =/
i hate that saying with every fiber of my being lol

 

[Daelin]

If you don't know programming (as it was my case when I learned JASS) it will be very difficult. I suggest you start with another programming language if you are having grand dificulties. That is because other languages have more manuals and stuff like that. Once you know programming, JASS is piece of cake.

~Daelin

 

[Andrewgosu]

Actually, I know html and a little bit of php, but dont know nothing about c++. And im too young, yet, too take courses of that. Gotta wait a few years.

I thought about learning JASS, maybe it could help me learn different programming languages in the future. But now, I dont know what to do as Daelin recommened learning those "different languages" before JASS.

I guess I bid my time in GUI then.

 

[SFilip]

I agree with daelin...when i started learning jass I already had the knowledge of pascal and php so I learned the basics in about 1 hour tnx to vexorian's tutorial.
after that I just kept converting triggers...and I'm still doing that while slowly learning.

 

[emjlr3]

yea just conver triggers, its good for beginners, gives them a sense of now being to overwhelmed, but after a while that jsut becomes a burden and u start writing form scratch

 

[Sim]

Daelin's tutorial From GUI to JASS helped me alot

Vexorian's tutorials also helped alot. And (dumrolls)..

Converting ! Also, you could start by inserting Custom Scripts in your GUI triggers.

Custom script: local unit u=GetEnteringUnit()
Custom script: local location p=GetRectCenter(gg_rct_Region_001)

and then you use those local variables in JASS actions, that is for example :

Custom script: call SetUnitPositionLoc( u, p )

that will move instantly your unit to the region "Region 001 <gen>"

Then if you wish you can insert a GUI action that you don't understand in JASS (as long as it doesn't use the local variables you just set above)

Even if that sounds complicated, read about a couple JASS tutorials and ... well learn!

 

[Daelin]

That sucks... I am totally against inserting JASS in GUI. That way, it gives you the impression that you know JASS, but in truth you don't. There are a lot of things you can't do that way. For example, manipulating functions the way you want. I'm curious how you would create constants that way for example.

 

[Sim]

I'm also curious how you can create constants when you don't know a thing in JASS

Edit : Daelin, in your sig there is a link that doesn't work because it seems the tutorial doesn't exist : Basic JASS Tips.

 

[Chocobo]

If you know very well the GUI you will start to understand JASS automaticly if you know to what it refers in GUI.

 

[WastedSavior]

im not a pro, and i have alot of problems starting, getting the basic action i want, i usually make a simple version of the trigger like "condition and event" and try to work off from there, im slowly gettin better inch by inch, but i need new things to try in jass

 

[Vexorian]

HTML is a markup language not a programming language...

GUI is the worst JASS teacher ever, don't use it. (Converting from GUI to custom text).

I refuse to think there is not sufficient JASS documentation.

Just do this: Practice + seeing other people's code + asking questions + reading tutorials.

I learned JASS because I once said to myself "Let's learn JASS" then I joined weaaddar's JASS challenge. I already knew some programming languages although none of them was a decent one (in that time I only had experience with mIRC scripting and visual basic, none of those is a decent thing, well maybe mIRC...) so I can't say that you could learn JASS without knowing about a programming language. But for the record GUI is a programming language anyways. What really helped me to learn JASS was the JASS vault and having common.j and blizzard.j open all the time on notepad when I was coding

 

[ReVolver]

Just do this: Practice + seeing other people's code + asking questions + reading tutorials.

Is that how you learned?

You can also get help from a IM like how I did. Conan showed me step by step (basics) and then when I needed help or questions, I just asked him. Its very easy to learn that way.

 

[emjlr3]

GUI is the worst JASS teacher ever, don't use it. (Converting from GUI to custom text).

I highly disagree with this, it was just too much to start from scratch( too overwhelming) like I do now, for begginers I think there is no better way, ease into it, atleast that is how I found it easiest for me, and others I have talked to as well