Agree 100%! I've been following a certain thread that this topic has stemmed from and I'm a little embarrassed how the community acted. I've worked freelance for many years and when working with people who don't speak English, you can't take their sentence meaning literally and it requires patients. Or else you'll get frustrated fast for the wrong reasons.
The newcomers board was always a nice little safe haven for people learning DBP or programming for the first time. There are many people willing to work with them and help them learn.
Quote: "If an accomplished programmer needs to ask a question about programming, then should he be classed as a newcomer since his knowledge doesn't cover what he wants to know, hence he is a newcomer to that topic."
I've been programming for almost 20 years and published 4 apps last year and I still consider myself a newb.
I don't think that's really an issue. If you're new to the language or programming and you need help just understanding how to put together a program or using a command, a newcomer forum would be the perfect spot.
Quote: "Although I think a "newcomers" sticky might be good, it would need some firm guidelines. One of these would be: make every effort, by reading the help files and looking at the many examples given, to solve your problem. Plus, don't say it's a bug until you are certain that it's not you."
Honestly, sometimes having someone with experience using a certain command or language can explain usage more clearly than a help file. The help files are good at explaining the literal use for a command, but sometimes you want to know more than just where to stick a command in your code. Using the physics in AppGameKit is such a topic, which a user was constantly bashed for using. My experience has been countless hours of trial and error because no where in the help files does it explain how you
should program a physics game. My last app was a platform game that uses the physics engine! I got there through trial/error and looking at examples from experienced coders.
So Mr. baxslash, does that mean you'll come out of retirement?
You said yourself you'd be more than happy to help out in the newcomer forum. Why not mod it?
You know you want your shiny badge back.
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