A Crash-Course In HuC

[Nodtveidt]

As part of the large HuC documentation project I took up awhile back, i decided to create a little crash-course in coding the C subset we have in HuC. It's my aim to eventually have an entire course that an absolute beginner with no programming experience whatsoever can pick up and basically learn in a very short amount of time. It covers both working alone and working with my upcoming development suite, HuiCide. Anyways, I have completed the very first lesson of the course, you can view it here:

http://hucdoc.nodtveidt.net/course01.html

If you have no experience and you can understand how the resulting program works in a nutshell, then my plan is thus far successful.

[Keranu]

Thanks man! I'll be sure to try this out when I have some free time! I have tried programming before and have only made VERY little progress in it, and I have done this many times in the past but I loose interests after a week and once I try again, I forget everything from the beginning and have to start over again. I'll let you know how well I did with it when I get the chance.

[Nodtveidt]

The second lesson of the course is now online:

http://hucdoc.nodtveidt.net/course02.html

It covers using variables, some basic maths, and another standard library function, put_number.

[Keranu]

I'll try it out when I get the chance, but I also need a compiler working. I can't get HuC to load, or I'm not even sure how to load it  .

[Nodtveidt]

Define "load".

[Keranu]

Hehe, I thought you would ask  .

I am going to post strictly off memory, I can't access the HuC folders right now. I open up the HuC folder and click some folder that has three different programs I believe, and one of them is HuC.exe. I click on it and the DOS window opens and quickly closes. I tried loading it straight from DOS so it might still up longer and I believe it gave me some kind of message, but I don't really remember. It seems like I could have downloaded the wrong thing.

[Nodtveidt]

That's because huc.exe is a compiler, not an environment. You don't "load it", you write your program and then use the compiler to compile it. The reason it opens the console window and then quickly closes it is because you're not giving it anything to work with when you just doubleclick it from Explorer.

I'm covering all of this in the introduction to the course, but I haven't gotten that far yet. Maybe I'll finish that part up today.

[Keranu]

Ohh, gotcha, I thought it was something like that. I'll mess with it again later and post about it.

[DeveloperX]

course links are dead now......... I think nodtveidt.net is offline now?

[Nodtveidt]

Nah, I simply forgot to put the subdomain up when I moved the server. It's back up now.

[DeveloperX]

Oh, btw... the links are dead again Nod.

[WhoNeedszzz]

Indeed, the links are dead. And I would like to learn! I am learning python currently but any other languages that aren't retarded is fine by me to learn. 

[DeveloperX]

Indeed, the links are dead. And I would like to learn! I am learning python currently but any other languages that aren't retarded is fine by me to learn. 

The C code that HuC can compile is similar to C.
I can send you some example sources. Just hit me up on IRC about it.

[Arkhan]

In the first lesson, when you call set_color_rgb(1,7,7,7)....

lets say I did #incpal(sprPal,"PICTURE.PCX")


when that set_color_rgb() is called, is it modifying color #1 of my recently included sprPal, or an entirely different pallet?

^_^    These tutorials are pretty solid! FEED ME MOAR TUTORIALS!!!!!!

[Nodtveidt]

set_color_rgb() affects the hardware palette, not your palette data (sprPal in this case). So sprPal itself isn't affected.

If I get a chance, I'll crank out some more tutorials.