Jmh44 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I'm wanting to learn how to make scripts this summer starting out easy so i can learn and then harder ones. Is there a good FREE way to learn java? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoomScape Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 www.google.com http://osbot.org/forum/forum/250-tutorials/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botre Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 (edited) http://proxybay.info/ Lynda.com Java essentials The java noob trifecta Edited May 26, 2014 by Botrepreneur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmh44 Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 www.google.com http://osbot.org/forum/forum/250-tutorials/ i googled it and saw some online schools. but id rather find out what the script developers and people that make scripts did to learn java Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botre Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Or you can go the ghetto way and decompile tons of local scripts, steal/learn from other people's scripts. I'm going to get flamed for this^ Come at me brochachos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Or you can go the ghetto way and decompile tons of local scripts, steal/learn from other people's scripts. I'm going to get flamed for this^ Come at me brochachos That's how I made my first script. Learned as I went. That was before I took programming classes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazardousRS Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I took classes at school this past year and found the khan academy has some good tutorials. Along with the ones named above! Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pac Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 http://proxybay.info/ Lynda.com Java essentials The java noob trifecta Yh wat he says ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arentigr8 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 The question is: do you want to make a good script or a GREAT script? Scripting is ultimately what got me into my profession (I'm a .NET developer). Learn the fundamentals behind programming before trying to program. It will pay off. http://code.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 (edited) I'm wanting to learn how to make scripts this summer starting out easy so i can learn and then harder ones. Is there a good FREE way to learn java? i googled it and saw some online schools. but id rather find out what the script developers and people that make scripts did to learn java If your aim is to eventually make advanced scripts then you shouldn't start with OSBot scripting. You very well could start there, and it would probably be fun to do so (it was for me and that's how I started years ago with other bots), but you'll be doing a lot of guesswork and scratching your head trying to understand what's going wrong and why because you won't have a basic, fundamental understanding of programming or the Java language. If you only want to learn how to make basic scripts over the summer then your approach is appropriate. If you want to make advanced scripts, then it'll take longer than summer break, and will require that you learn how to actually program to some degree, not just script for this bot or perhaps even just code within Java. In fact, trying to skip ahead and learn "how do I do this intermediate thing" before knowing "why should I do this basic thing rather than that basic thing" (sorry if that doesn't make sense) could hurt you in the long-term because fundamentals are as important to programming as they are to baseball (best analogy I could come up with, sue me). Basically, do you want to make a powerminer that can drop ore and detect a smoking rock? If so, that's a great start; play around with scripting over break. You could probably just look at the sources of different mining scripts (by decompiling them if sources aren't provided) while trial and error scripting with an IDE (Netbeans, eclipse, etc. which will outright tell you what's wrong and often suggest solutions) and then have a basic enough understanding of what they're doing to create your own script. If you choose such a course for yourself, then I highly recommend an iterative design, which at its most basic and relevant (for you) definition means "get something to work, learn why it works, and apply what you've learned to what you do next." Very basic example: figure out how to detect a valid rock to mine and confirm your method works -> a smoking rock is the opposite of what you need to mine -> use how you detected a valid rock to detect a smoking rock and build your anti-smoking-rock code onto that. Or, do you want to make a reliable green dragon killer and banker or barrows script? Then you probably (almost definitely) want to start from the bottom of Java and programming essentials and work your way up over a significant period of time because you'll need a firm grasp on what you're doing. I made "reliable" bold because while it's not outright difficult to make such scripts, it does require a bit of knowledge to implement sound logic which can anticipate and handle various circumstances within RuneScape that could break the script, as well as "exceptions" and other errors you will encounter within Java programming. Accounting for all the seemingly small, myriad things that could go wrong within a script or whatever you create can make all the difference between what people consider to be novice or professional. tl;dr make simple scripts by jumping into scripting, make advanced scripts by learning programming. Edited June 12, 2014 by TheSaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
