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you know that you're a shitty coder when you try to add AS to graphic symbols

When you can't remember your variable names, so you look them up, but then you forget them right as you go back to coding. >_>

happens to me ALL the time

when you read all these insults on AS but dont get whats so funny because you never took enough time to look at it because you have an atention span as big as mine

who want muffins?

You know your a shitty coder WHEN:

You put an onClipEvent handler on a frame.

WHEN: You become so frustrated by an array.push, which inexplicably overwrites every value in the array with the last pushed data, that you create a dummy version of your code to pass around; thinking - in lunatic fashion - that perhaps you've stumbled upon a bug in the compiler.

function testRender(){
	var tmpVar:Array = new Array(4);
	var dataVar:Array = new Array([0,1,2,3],[4,5,6,7],[8,9,10,11]);
	var outVar:Array = new Array();
	
	for(var i:int=0; i<dataVar.length; i++){
		for (var j:int=0; j<4; j++){
				tmpVar[j] = dataVar[i][j]+10;
		}
		trace("On iteration " + i + " tmpVar(" + tmpVar + ") is pushed to outVar.");
		outVar.push(tmpVar);
	}
	trace("At end, outVar is: " + outVar);
}

testRender();

...only to realize - before posting it, thank God - that the value you're pushing is not data, (at least as far as the compiler is concerned) but a reference; and therefore all index values of the array end up pointing to the same location in memory. (Solve with .slice() )

Derailed by array fundamentals - Ouch.

You know you're a shitty coder when you ask for
a jump script.

Hahaha I love you!

you know your a shitty coder when:

you type "Please_flash_work" after every line

When your instance names Are Already existing syntaxes like

"random" "math" or "if"

i called one of my roots "random" and i kept getting errors for sooo long then i finnaly got it.. If it turns blue in code dont use it as an instance name :D

you know your a shitty coder WHEN...

you forget to state the movespeed in a script for moving your main character
and you end up thinking that flash is being "slow" so you save and restart it several times.

moveSpeed = 10;
so easy to forget. Yet so simple to add.

when you just finish making a pong clone and think that making a thing-thing like sidescroller next will be easy.

when you still use _x and _y to refer to coordinates.

AS3 FTW

At 9/26/08 10:32 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: when you still use _x and _y to refer to coordinates.

AS3 FTW

lol, as2 u have to though

When you can't tell a boolean from number.

var speed:Boolean =2

You know you're a shitty coder when you're too wrapped up with posting something witty in the "You know you're a shitty coder WHEN" thread to realize that it's over two years old.

At 9/26/08 11:25 PM, DarkMana wrote: You know you're a shitty coder when you're too wrapped up with posting something witty in the "You know you're a shitty coder WHEN" thread to realize that it's over two years old.

It was a FUCKING EPIC return, what the hell, go away with your nonfuckingepicness.

At 9/26/08 10:49 PM, BillysProgrammer wrote:

At 9/26/08 10:32 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: when you still use _x and _y to refer to coordinates.

AS3 FTW

lol, as2 u have to though

Well that was highly halarious.

Your know your a bad coder when...

You right on a button "Drop The Gumball Please"

Lol, the person in my class wrote that :P

WHEN: You create a trap to prevent your code from doing a hundred needless calculations if two arrays have equal values:

if(array1 != array2) {

...Two weeks, and tens of millions of needless calculations later, you remember that arrays cannot be directly compared without converting them to strings first.

if(array1.toString() != array2.toString()) {

At 5/2/06 06:31 PM, Ani-Money wrote: you know that you're a shitty coder when you try to add AS to graphic symbols

Oh, c'mon, that's just retarded. Even I aint done that.

when you ask for help or big yourself up on the NG Flash forum :)

When you ask for help in the flash forum and when someone gives you a sarcastic response in code form you copy and paste it and ask why it still wont work.