Hi Thomas, I was thinking he is meaning just learning the code structure, in which case he would need to understand the basic syntax which he may not have gotten just by listening.
I have not checked out BGT but I'm assuming that it has symbols at least in some places such as braces / brackets, parentheses etc. Anyway, good points. Perhaps I misunderstood where he is coming from. Thanks, Cara :) --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Feb 24, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Josh, I think you are over complicating things for yourself because usually even when I was learning to program I never needed to slow my speech down and go through the code line by line and character by character. The important thing is to understand the mechanics of what the code does rather than understanding how a custom function, variable, etc is spelled in someone's sample code. For example, if I am reading someone's code and I see a string variable called text in the code. I don't really need to know how text is spelled unless I intend to modify the program somehow. Otherwise I just need to know there is a variable there and it is of type string. Same goes for functions. there might be a function called GetHealth() and it returns an integer. If I am just studying code I don't need to know exactly how GetHealth() is spelled unless I intend to copy it word for word and character for character into a compiler or intend to modify the program I am reading. Does that make sense? In short, I think you are paying more attention to the niddy gritty details of the sample code than how it works. Variable names, fun ction names, change from program to program and that is not at all what is important. What is important is the type of data that variable stores or what that function does. HTH On 2/24/14, Josh <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I was looking at the bgt manual. It seems for me when reading code I get > more out of it by either slowing my speech way down when reading code, > or by left and right arrowing a character at a time to slowly go through > it and see what its doing. is that how you guys read code also by > arrowing left and right through it or when writing and reading it > slowing the speech down a good amount? > > Josh > > -- > using windows7 laptop > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
