JASS tutorial/unprotected maps?

[Jaina Proudless]

Hello, the way I learned GUI is by opening maps and examining the triggers then trying to mimic them myself.

I want to try the same thing with JASS. Reading tutorials and following their instructions when starting JASS is so boring and seemingly-pointless that I just end up procrastinating instead of learning JASS.

Does anyone know of any or have any maps where I can see its JASS code?

 

[pOke]

Most posted maps here usually say whether they're open source or not. Also you can look at resources in the spell/JASS section as the standard for proper coding there is rather strict. That'd be a place to start.

However, maybe a better place would be converting your GUI triggers to Custom Text and removing BJ functions and optimizing them, that will help you by already knowing what the trigger does and now you just want to make it do it better.

I'd recommend this tutorial for this approach Converting GUI into Efficient JASS

Once you've got a pretty good grasp on converting triggers, you should just jump right into it. If you don't know the function name or arguments you just jump back to the GUI convert that line and look at it. You also are going to want to be using JNGP if you aren't already.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

JNGP

And what might that be?

 

[pOke]

Jass New Gen Pack

It's an add-on to the WE that enables much easier coding and a whole slew of other benefits. It highlights functions, tells you necessary arguments for said functions, allows you to write/use vJass if desired.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Okay so far I am converting my GUI and replacing the BJs.
Is there any other things I can start with to optimize my triggers?

 

[bear_369]

Is there any other things I can start with to optimize my triggers?

Removing leaks and making them MUI-friendly(ex: creating local loop than using BJ loop, use local variables) is one of the best way to optimize your triggers for my opinion.

 

[SAUS]

I used this tutorial and started converting my triggers:
Converting GUI into Efficient JASS

I found it to be a good starting point for my JASS adventures with good explanations. It's a great starting point if you learned GUI thoroughly and then want to move into JASS.

Other useful tools:
JASS Manual: API Browser - Blizzard.j - The code for blizzard.j (all BJ functions). Sometimes they don't convert one-to-one, so you can use this to see what they are actually doing.
common.j - WarCraft3 - The common.j function list. This is all the base functions you have access to in JASS.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

I used this tutorial and started converting my triggers:
Converting GUI into Efficient JASS

I generally can't understand tutorials as they always use JASS jargon words and as soon as I see one of them my brain just turns off the entire sentence becomes meaningless.

Spoiler:

Spoiler: How you see it

First all functions need to be started with the function keyword. This declares the start of a function.
Were I have "Name" that is were you declare what the function is called.
Then you put the takes keyword this is to declare the start of the arguments that function will take.
Were I have "Arguments" you need to replace that with the arguments.
Arguments are What the function takes.

Spoiler: How I see it

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[DarkBlueLacky]

Those are just standard programming terms. They are apparent in really all programming languages to an extent. They are simply words with a meaning just like any other word. Learning them isn't a matter of just learning JASS it's a combination of expanding your vocabulary and being willing to learn common, standard programming practices.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Those are just standard programming terms. They are apparent in really all programming languages to an extent. They are simply words with a meaning just like any other word. Learning them isn't a matter of just learning JASS it's a combination of expanding your vocabulary and being willing to learn common, standard programming practices.

I don't know anything about programming.
I just want to make a better map and tutorials that are designed to be un-readable by the un-initiated don't really get me anywhere.

 

[Dehua_Darbuya]

You might want to try installing JassCraft. It's a small Jass editor program that has all the natives and functions from the Blizzard.j and common.j files, along with highlighting and a syntax checker.