Talk:Programming

I'm thinking that for organizational and readability purposes we should split this off into smaller documents, like the API docs for modding. At the moment, this page is pretty overwhelming to look at. We should also make a new category: Programmable Block (or similar) so we can tag overlaps in the API documentation and not reinvent the API wheel for every interface.Textor (talk) 07:09, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. In the official Modding Guide, Keen mentions that they eventually want 3 different types of customization, all of which technically exist now but still need to be completely fleshed out. These three are in-game Scripting (which we just got), workshop-friendly API Modding, and then *.dll modding, roughly in this order from least to most impactful/difficult. At the very least we need things to be divided along those three lines. I'm thinking further divisions could also exist for Mechanics, Guides, and Documentation, which would explain, respectively, What This Is And How to Use It, Changing Things 101, and References, roughly targeting most players, new modders, and experienced modders. This makes about 9 different base articles, with perhaps some satellite in-depth ones as well. Thoughts? Ketura (talk) 09:09, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Sounds good. I think tutorials should also get difficulty tags, so we may want to make three tutorial categories: beginner, intermediate, and advanced so that the difficulty of the concepts can be more easily classified and filtered. If each interface was given its own page (which I think they started doing on the API side) we can also have a section for notes, in case any interesting facts or quirks are discovered that are significant enough to justify noting on the wiki page for that entry. I think we can contain everything about an interface on the interface's page, however-- I don't see the need to divide the interface into individual properties, methods, and events. Each one would have little individual information and would be better suited to the main interface article.Textor (talk) 11:58, 9 January 2015 (UTC)