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Third-party Axe tutorial
« on: September 25, 2011, 11:20:20 pm »
Something I've always wanted to write is a complete tutorial on coding in Axe, and it seems like nobody's done a full one in English yet (kindermoumoute has one in French, and SirCmpwn had been working on one in English but never finished and is now gone), so I've started. All I have done is an introduction, but I've already set up the layout for everything, and I'm planning to combine some of my old (shorter) tutorials to fill in the holes in this one. Comments and suggestions are very welcome :)
« Last Edit: December 15, 2011, 11:32:06 pm by Deep Thought »




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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2011, 11:28:24 pm »
Ooh, very cool. This will be very useful, as I've seen a lot of new people around. I am always here, if you need any help with anything at all.
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2011, 11:32:59 pm »
Nice. Also if you want to you can upload it in the Omni tutorials section (and link to this thread) ^^ http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=articles;cat=11

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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2011, 11:51:13 pm »
Oh, forgot to mention that part. Yes, I will definitely convert it to BBCode to post here when I'm done with a significant portion, but not before. I always kept my "arrays" and "SHMUP" tutorials updated everywhere it was posted, and updating copies on three different forums with three different BBCode syntaxes every time I changed a URL or image got to be really annoying x.x
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2011, 12:08:53 am »
I really like the image for chapter 1, and the expanding Javascript expanding thing :)

Question: Are you planning to take a 'here's how to do things, quickly' approach, or a more comprehensive 'bottoms-up' approach where you discuss the internals of the calc first?
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2011, 12:30:27 am »
Question: Are you planning to take a 'here's how to do things, quickly' approach, or a more comprehensive 'bottoms-up' approach where you discuss the internals of the calc first?
Bottoms-up. I'm planning to make this page 2 and a mini-tutorial on binary/hexadecimal page 3. The PDF in the Axe package is one of the best quick-start guides I've seen for any language.
I really like the image for chapter 1, and the expanding Javascript expanding thing :)
Yeah, I worked a lot on that slide thing :)

And as for http://clrhome.tk/tutorials/axe/what.png, I got the idea from the Wikipedia logo XD
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2011, 07:01:22 am »
Epic intro :D
Also those images are like molecules ;D
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2011, 09:32:54 am »
Epic intro :D
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2011, 11:30:41 am »
ooh, everything is all shlick and shiny.

i love the over all feel, if nothing else, and i know you explain things well, so it should be fantastic.

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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2011, 11:56:29 am »
Hot. Nice job, I remember back in the days when I started trying to learn TI-BASIC off these obscure tutorials online; we definitely need an axe one.

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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2011, 12:30:27 pm »
Oh, I've been waiting for something like this. A lot of the tutorials out there for Axe just don't do it for me. :D

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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2011, 06:19:20 pm »
I'm now working on Lesson 2: Playing with Data (an explanation of data and pointers) before I do that comparison page.
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2011, 10:12:11 pm »
Very nice. this is the tutorial I've been waiting for. ;D

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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2011, 11:37:28 pm »
* mrmprog has been looking for this!
Seems like a good thing for begginers.I think it is one of the few english general tutorials i have seen. Good work.
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Re: Third-party Axe tutorial
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2011, 11:41:45 pm »
* mrmprog has been looking for this!
Seems like a good thing for begginers.I think it is one of the few english general tutorials i have seen. Good work.
Seriously! those french ones don't make any sense. especially because I don't speak french. :P