What do you guys use?

[Troxy]

Hello

I've been a user of Proboards for about four years now. I've been an admin or moderator, on and off, for near on three years, of many different sites. I know many of the codes available for this hosting site, and I'mve used a good 40% of those codes at least once. I've always kind of wondered though, what kind of languages you use. Not just here on proboards, but for site design in general.

See, the reason I ask is that I recently went into college under the major of video game design, and part of the requirements is vast knowledge of the language C++. I was doing homework, and doing some things for my admin, when I started noticing that the codes I found in the database here was... uncanny. It made me wonder if you guys do in fact use C++. I've been wanting for a long time to learn so I can start coding myself for proboards sites.

(not sure if this breaks the rules, cause I'm not requesting a code or nothing, but it sort of does pertain to proboards coding >>; If it is, I apologize guys.)

[Bob]

Mar 20, 2010 19:18:54 GMT -8 Troxy said:

Hello

I've been a user of Proboards for about four years now. I've been an admin or moderator, on and off, for near on three years, of many different sites. I know many of the codes available for this hosting site, and I'mve used a good 40% of those codes at least once. I've always kind of wondered though, what kind of languages you use. Not just here on proboards, but for site design in general.

See, the reason I ask is that I recently went into college under the major of video game design, and part of the requirements is vast knowledge of the language C++. I was doing homework, and doing some things for my admin, when I started noticing that the codes I found in the database here was... uncanny. It made me wonder if you guys do in fact use C++. I've been wanting for a long time to learn so I can start coding myself for proboards sites.

(not sure if this breaks the rules, cause I'm not requesting a code or nothing, but it sort of does pertain to proboards coding >>; If it is, I apologize guys.)

The scripts used to modify ProBoards are written in JavaScript. Like many other languages, JavaScript's syntax is loosely based off of C. That's probably why you found it uncanny.

JavaScript is a client-side scripting language. In other words it's interpreted by the viewer's browser instead of being compiled into an executable. And it's the language to learn if you want to write scripts of your own. Though basic knowledge of HTML and web document structure is a prerequisite.

[Troxy]

Okay, cool! My instructor says Java is one of the things I will be learning later on in my major, so based on the names, Javascript isn't to far off? I realize that I'll have to not only learn Javascript itself, but how I'll need to use it specifically for Proboards, but thank you ^^ this was very helpful!

[Bennett 🚀]

Javascript is actually way different.. JS makes dynamic pages, Java is way more complicated, in my opinion.. Javascript doesn't use any applets or anything..

[Nick (Goodbye!)]

A knowledge of CSS can really go a long ways too. It makes a major difference if you know how to use CSS with Javascript because your possibilities for page layout are endless.