Suggestion for Compsci

[Aange10]

How about adding a Module forum for Turing?

I'm sure there are tons of useful ones, that could make a lot of peoples lives easier. I know that ttm had a useful module on Whatdotcolor. I also made one for clicking, and I'm sure all of the legends (wtd, cervantes, clayton, gandalf, programmingforfun, tony, dan, insectoid, etc.) have made and submitted fabulous modules. Most of which are gone, under 1000 pages of "my pong".

How about adding the forum? And to keep it looking nice, just have a standard layout (like in the Turing Help, or that is required for a tutorial on the Turing Walkthrough) that is required for posting.

I've made a few that I use, like a much better version of Turing's 'get' (it wraps, erases, outputs, has a little bar at the end, etc.), something that will detect collision for me easily, something that will allow me to be lazy, and will detect my 'buttons' and draw an outline over them (rather than manually having to do so, or drawing a 'pressed' button). I have one for clicking that makes life easier.

I've barley been programming at all, and I have all of these tools that help me in everyday use. What about all the others who've done this? I'm sure there are tons of them. If there was an organized, readable place for all of these, it'd help out a lot.

If somebody rewrites whatdotcolor for fun, I'd like to see somebody's module for Draw.RainbowBox.

Thanks

[Aange10]

Are there no go toers?

[Aange10]

Mod edit: split out Zren's post into Turing Tutorials to sticky

I like that format, like C man's. But yes I mean a whole forum; all of those and more. It'd be very useful. And just having what you posted (and more added) as a sticky would be great.

As I was also saying before, like in the Turing help forums, the module submissions could have a required layout. Something like:

Features
< Answer Here >

How it Works
< Answer Here>

Syntax
< Answer Here >

Instructions
< Answer Here >

Working Example
< Attach >

[Aange10]

Does anybody second this? Or support it's usefulness or debate the lack thereof?

[Tony]

The suggested approach is to just start posting anyway, with tags in the title -- "[Module] Whatever". I (or one of the mods) can stick a post up to keep track of things. If enough interest warrants a dedicated forum section, then such will be created and all the existing posts moved into their new home.

[Aange10]

Great! Do you think you could take Zren's post and sticky it in the submissions? We can work from there and add to it.

[Tony]

Done. It's stuck in Turing Tutorials now.

[mirhagk]

This is a good idea, although keeping it as a single thread is all that is needed right now. There are tons of good libraries that people have made (dan's sprite library is one that comes to the top of my head, as well as many different GUI ones), but they are impossible to find, unless you remember what they are called, because there are like 10 million pages of hangman/pong/mario.