nintendo64 - Thu Nov 13, 2003 2:29 pm
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It was compiled in Delphi 6.0, the language used is Object Pascal which is very easy to read and comprehend depending on the programmer skills, i read CLE and it's pretty much understandable except for VCL commands that you'll probably won't understand (don't worry there are little of them).
-nintendo64
stuperfied - Mon Dec 15, 2003 5:47 am
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I have learned a passing knowledge of C++ and im about to become a lot better aquainted with it but before I get too attatched can someone reasure me that I am going to be able to learn hot to write programs that will run in windows? as in - in a window and not in dos window or on web site.
50% Packetloss - Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:08 am
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First you would need to know C++ then you would need to learn Visual C++, which is more to learn but mircrosoft has made files to help you in the process called MFC. So if you picked up a book on writing windows programs in C++ then you would probably get something that is entirly about MFC. Then if you wanted to get into graphics, you would need to learn directx or openGL. Programming isnt for everyone and you should take a class and see if you like it.
Cyan~Fire - Mon Dec 15, 2003 6:28 pm
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I don't recommend programming classes. Usually everybody in the class is slow and you get nowhere.
I have learned C++ totally by on-line tutorials (www.cpluscplus.com) and reading others' code. My friend, however took a semester course in C++. The day I started learning it, I made a comment to my friend about arrays and he asked "What's an array?" 
But I definitely would recommend learning C++ in whatever way you can. It makes life easier when you can write programs that do menial work. 
Dr Brain - Mon Dec 15, 2003 7:38 pm
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I took a few programming classes, and I must say that they helped me immensly. Now, I DID skip the basic intro to programming class where all the morons are weeded out. It was in my classes that I learned about polymorphism and inheratance, things I can't live without now that I know them.
Another plus on classes is that (if you have a decent teacher) your instructor will catch you if you start doing bad coding habbits and you always have someone to ask if the search engine isn't helping.
Mine GO BOOM - Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:12 am
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Sadly, I started to learn C programming back when bots were brand new. Ghost Ship had the source to their Pro League dueling bots, and I offered to help, as I had an idea for an online, instantly updated stats site. So, I learned C for about 3 months by hand, from what little I knew from Perl and what the compiler said didn't work. In about a months time, I had stats.shanky.com up and running, which had live stats, including live chat logs. Worked pretty good. But, this was before I knew of SQL, and thus I sent every update via HTTP GET method. That lagged up pretty badly once it got to game-time. I'm sure some Pro players still remember my Recordbots back in the good old days.
MSDN CDs are what have helped me the most. Browse over some open source projects, such as Mozilla/Firebird, GAIM, Miranda, etc, to get an understanding how some things work. Then, look up what you don't know, and learn how it is used.
So far, every programming course I've taken in college (second year) I've sort of taught the class. Amusing when the teacher asks me the questions. But, before I go around boasting, my code does still suck, as I've never learned it properly. It works (most of the time), but looks ugly (Ekted will back me up on the ugly part.) That, and the teacher was around when Fortran was brand new.
but the readme.txt sucks :/