Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-26235098-20150610150343/@comment-4189499-20150612081254

Catinthedark wrote: Imamadmad wrote: You seem to be catching on to things very quickly already. I mean, you started in March and are already making templates! That's pretty impressive. Thanks. I'm a former developer so the tech side is pretty easy for me. (Btw, I'm still cringing at the massive switch thing, more embarrassed than you can imagine for voicing that possibility.) The interpersonal side is less easy for me... in spite of my big mouth about common things, I have a hard time speaking up about "important thigs" when I am not sure about the "right" place and stuff. I prolly need to think in terms of any place is better than no place.

In that regard, though, I am very grateful for the guidance you have provided here. Thank you again. You see, I've gone in the opposite direction. It was through editing the technical side here at Wikia that I was inspired to study programming properly with the hopes of eventually becoming a developer! The massive switches are pretty awful, but where the best option available at the time as Lua hadn't been introduced as an alternative programming language to ParserFunctions. Thankfully, the difficulty templates have been moved away from the switch function to more of a hash-map style setup, and the other templates relying on massive switches should be fixed up soon as well; I just need to learn Lua first, but that's got to wait until after I've done a test in first Java then python in a couple weeks time, as those two are confusing enough without chucking a third language into the mix!