Let's talk about coding.

[kyonides]

Well, I also started with HTML and CSS long time ago when it was HORRIBLE, yeah, way back in the 90's. XHTML was the hot stuff with its weird frames that were kept in a separate section but screen readers weren't able to find them for they only knew about the main section, call it index, shop, contacts, etc.

For a time I dropped it for I didn't find it useful but some day my parents sent me to a so called HTML summer school and didn't find it weird, but we also used gopher and some other ancient tools in those days. Since a classmate smoked like a wh*** my beige shirt turned like brown after a single day at that school.

Later RPG Maker 95 showed up, I tried it, but nothing happened for it had no scripting. Plus I didn't know what scripting was at that moment. Yeah, then we found RM2K and RM2K3 but I could only dream on making a custom game for they still lacked something like scripting. I didn't even think on compiling and linking programs made in C or C++ for some unknown reason.

Once RMXP came out in 2005 o 2006, things were different. At first I found it weird that some text could change stuff just like that. Between August and October 2008 I was reading a help request on another board and for some reason I kept reading the script as if it were a story somebody had written. I even found the first bug in my scripting life! I pointed it out and people were kind of amazed that I could do it on my own.

Then I visited English speaking boards, met people like Trickster, who rarely showed up, SephirothSpawn, who I criticized for not teaching us some large amount of scripting stuff (even if he did it for free ), oh right, there was a crazy werewolf fan as well. Add many weird characters from HB and Venetia, a spriter or perhaps already a graphic designer.

My first script handled a window displaying real local time on screen. IIRC I also asked wulfo a few things back then. I just loved hashes but not arrays. For some reasons I first understood the usefulness of the Hash class in Ruby and then deduct how to use the Array. The key value pair concept fascinated me. Now you can just take a look around and find many scripts published by your beloved (or hated?) dark scripter.

About two years ago I went to another course where I learned HTML, CSS, JS and Bootstrap extension or plugin. I kind of liked it and knowing several programming concepts for playing with Ruby really helped me a lot. Sadly the day we were supposed to learn a bit of Ruby on Rails and Heroku, the instructor felt the other students were way behind us in scripting knowledge. (There was another guy that had worked with Rails for I don't know how long.) Honestly I really wanted to get my hands on Rails then. Anyway, I learned a bit of jQuery and preferred it over plain JS.

There they told me w3schools was the worst site to look for help on HTML, CSS, JS and Bootstrap. The instructor even showed us how he installed a javascript plugin on Chrome to hide any evidence of that website's very existence. Weird huh?

In the past I've tried making GUI for PC applications with wxWidgets, GTK, Qt, Tcl/Tk. I just disliked them all, but Qt4.8 had a working rubygem that would let me make windows with Ruby. I then started my KUnits Gosu actors and items and classes DB. (Even so I could easily do it with a CLI like Konsole or CMD, but you gotta be patient...)

Lately I've been dealing with Ruby, CRuby and now C++, mainly because of KUnits development. Sadly CRuby is fast but kind of incompatible with Gosu that offers many things via C++ compiled code, mess with stuff that is supposed to be displayed on screen and whooosh! Segfault has been spotted!