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  • I’ve been playing for years; I even used to rank in the top 100 DM players. It’s an outstanding game that doesn’t get near the attention / credit it deserves. The graphics still look good, it’ll run on a potato, fast, satisfying gameplay… it’s the best.

    Back when I lived in the UK, I’d play instagib on german servers that were so full and the matches so intense that you couldn’t take a step after spawning before exploding if you hadn’t learned how to move quickly yet. It became an ambition to be able to get off of the spawn point, and I began to use those intense matches to wake me up after work every day.

    Eventually, when logging on during the wee hours, I’d get to chatting with one or two other players on an empty server and they’d give me tips, or show me the secret rooms and easter eggs in some of the weirder community-made maps.

    I don’t play much lately, but I do run a server to give a little back for all the fun. Anyway, yea, Xonotic is great.







  • Why not try simple scripts at first? You could write a little script in Bash, JS, or Ruby to create folders or text files. Besides the very basic stuff I did on the high school robotics team, my first programming project was when I worked as a print broker and we invested in a digital press. I needed a program to calculate the cost of a print job, so I learned a little BASIC and wrote a program on my TI-98 to do it for me. It would ask a series of questions (eg - paper cost, single / double sided, color / black and white, how many imposed on an SRA3 sheet, etc) and spit out the cost of the job.

    As for how you use the code, say you write a ruby script; to run it, you’d navigate to the script directory in the terminal and type ./scriptName.rb to run it. If you’re using a compiled language, you’d compile it (your lessons would cover how to do this) and then you’d run the resulting binary the same way.