Don wrote:rubenwardy wrote:the Minetest namespace, ie minetest.*, will be explained in the first chapter, and itemstacks is a planned chapter. I didn't intend to sound like I was rejecting your ideas.
As for videos, they take a lot of effort to get to the same quality, although they are better at communicating harder things that would need a huge and confusing list in a tutorial if done right. Good luck.
I took no offence. I was just letting you know why I was giving ideas. As someone who knows almost nothing about programing I know some of my ideas will be rejected or considered dumb.
Keep up the good work
Find a good tutorial for OOP programming. I think it would benefit you. One I liked was How to think like a computer scientist.
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/It would be very difficult to understand modding without this sort of knowledge. For LUA, not sure what the best resource is. I've only scratched the surface on Lua. Perhaps someone could point us both in a good direction for that.
Anyway on with the ON TOPIC discussion ;)