Trying to Learn

[Aeriez]

Originally Posted by Lybrial I agree... the documentation of the WOW API is horrible compared to how documentations usually look like. Personally I would never release an API so badly documented like the WOW API is, especially not when Im a company as big as Blizzard.

I think this is my biggest frustration with trying to learn WoW specific functionality of Lua. It requires far more digging than I'm used to. Between examples of functionality and documentation, I'm pretty good at playing around with it until it starts doing what I want it to do. And at that point it just clicks "Oh so that's how that works" sort of thing. It seems like when I want to learn how a specific function works, it just leads to another function that I need to figure out that is within it. Which leads to yet another 3 functions you need to figure out. And sometimes it seems like you never really find the bottom of the nesting pool.

[Lybrial]

Originally Posted by Aeriez I think this is my biggest frustration with trying to learn WoW specific functionality of Lua. It requires far more digging than I'm used to. Between examples of functionality and documentation, I'm pretty good at playing around with it until it starts doing what I want it to do. And at that point it just clicks "Oh so that's how that works" sort of thing. It seems like when I want to learn how a specific function works, it just leads to another function that I need to figure out that is within it. Which leads to yet another 3 functions you need to figure out. And sometimes it seems like you never really find the bottom of the nesting pool.

Exactly. And since we are all just devs which are doing this for fun in our freetime while having a fulltime job
we also dont have the time to create a webpage with a good documentation and good examples