Sorry, allow me to express this further.Faren wrote:You would get that with any programming languge. But I think it fundamentally illustrates my point.Nanopls wrote:Okay so I am 100% lost on the video about states. I have watched it about 3 times over and I just have no idea what he is on about. I feel like reading through some Lua book would have been a lot easier to do first because were I to try something of my own now, I would spend 80% of the time Googling for code that would give me some basic function.
If you understand control structures, you understand programming.
That is the whole point right? Many programmers like myself don't understand why non programmers such as yourself can't see that.
It's that simple.
If you understand control structures, you understand programming.
Control structure are hereditory in every programming language. They literally define programming.
http://www.lua.org/pil/4.3.4.html