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I am really wanting to learn how to code C or C++ or anything I can use to create and run a MUD. I am pretty active, on up to 5 hours a day or more, and I am a fast learn, and REALLY want to learn. I tried getting books and all and learned some things in C and C++ such as variables, constants, functions, input and output, and that's about it. I really want to learn the advanced parts and how to use them in a MUD. I am very willing to become an apprentice and help you with your MUD in the process. I really just want to make my ideas that i have for MUDs real and into code. Telling other people my ideas don't really get everything i have to say true, and coders I know are very few nowadays.

A little about me: Im in college majoring in Music, and im 19. I graduated with a 3.9 and i live in Flordia. I've been mudding since i was 12, and learned to build at 15, and now I wanna go up another step on the MUD platau.

I would be SO grateful if this could become a reality. You can contact me at:

snickers4everyone@yahoo.com

-Strife

several things...
1) wrong board, please read the rules before posting- it will help you get the answers you need and ward off nasty board snobs like myself.

2) I personally found that downloading a newbie codebase (suggest ROM or Circle) helps a lot more than general coding books. The caveat to this is that you should at least know basic logic and: if then else while and for. Circle has very good documentation on how to add new races, new skills, etc.. which is a good starting point to learn how to code on a mud (at least thats what I did, and two years later I get by pretty good). So download the codebase- read the documentation and try to compile it, ask questions about any problems you encounter- use www.MudMagic.com in the newbie forum of the codebase you chose- the people there tend to answer newbie questions better, and posting in the right forum is more likely to lead to answers.

3) which college?

Or you can goto the Dawn of time website, download their source, and mod it to learn. The support on the forums are pretty good, as long as you take time to read what has been previously posted, use the search, and read the docs, keep a back up of everything and dont be afraid of crashing a few hundred times. I can teach you how to code in a mud, but my style and your style will prolly not ever be the same. My methodology is to find somethign I want to change and mod it to what I need. Its ugly, is rough, but its in the trench coding.. when I am actually at a time to go back and clean up and make it pretty I might.. I know it would make it easier when I get ready to imp something else.. but hey thats why I enjoy hack coding.. no need to make it easy.. lol