I’m a long time noob due to my severe ADHD and just being a slow learner in general.  I’ve been away for a while due to abandoning the QB64 ship and drifting into C programming and Arduino.  And to be honest, I feel dumber now than before after the hiatus.  I don’t know what it is about QB, but things seemed to stick and I actually felt like I could half think like a programmer when studying it. 

After months of C and whatever the arduino language is, I still feel like I’ve gone brain dead and can’t retain any of that stuff.  Plus creativity plunges to nothing.

Anyways, i was just curious if it would be possible to write some sort of libraries or whatnot that would allow someone to interface with an Arduino and program it using QB64.  I don’t know much about computing itself, so if it’s not possible, I’m interested in knowing why.

I have a very difficult time coding, but I’ve made it to task 11, and I remember a few errors.  I feel like it’s a test to see if you are actually staying on your toes or just copying and pasting code, or just typing it in without trying to think about it. 

I very much like it for the most part, until there’s a program like the calendar with the scrolling led display.  I feel a lot of it went unexplained and well over my head. 

When you mentioned something about a chess piece being displayed, it really threw me off.  I definitely do not recall encountering anything like that.

OK, so this is Terry Ritchie's game programming tutorial.  What I've been doing is once I go over a section, I try and go back and do something similar, yet simpler, to prove to myself that I may understand it.  I don't believe that just copying the code and moving on does much for me as to retaining things.  Is he not putting multiple commands into his Cir(Count%) array? For instance, Is  Cir(Count%).c = _RGB32(Red%, Green%, Blue%) not a command?

Thanks for your explanations folks.  I literally spent four hours last night staring at the first two sections of Unseen's code before feeling like I was starting to get it.  I ended up rewriting little parts of those sections and adding print statements to those parts to show me what was actually happening in those parts.  For example, I'd just make up a smaller 2 d array and data set, then run through it, but actually print out what it was reading and so forth.  for example


I think I was starting to get the drawing part after looking at it briefly toward the end of my night.  Guess i'll spend a couple hours with it as well later.
What immediately jumped out to me at first in the drawing part, was the question as to why the y% and z% variable received the value of 0 in the places that they did.


Is there perhaps anything I could apply these concepts to that will give me practice that may be a bit easier to wrap my head around at first?  Or should i just keep inducing headaches into myself?  Maybe I've gotten in too far before understanding some simpler concepts?  Finally, thank you for your time everyone that has tried to help me.

Is there a tutorial somewhere explaining how to design maps using arrays and DATA.  I've got a book on QB64 on kindle by an author called 'Iam Beourd' haha, and he/she gets into designing a map.  They lay out a DATA table consisting of the numbers 0-5 or so, with a zero representing an empty room, a one representing a room containing an enemy, and so on.  I'm having difficulty understanding how it all comes together.  Especially how the player navigates through these rooms and the computer knowing which one you are in.  I'm also have trouble how 'inforoom' is actually working to give statements about each room.  And finally, the math being used to place the "wall" graphics is something I don't really get at all.  Is there a simpler version of something similar that is explained for dummies, or is this as dumbed down as it gets and I just happen to be dumber?

I've tried to learn programming at least four different times and I do not guess Ive really failed at it, because here I am trying again.  Last attempt was with Smilebasic4 on my switch and I was actually able to progress somewhat in accomplishing some things i was slightly proud of.  However, i hit a wall and the documentation seems to speak as if it presumes you already know a lot of the lingo and have an understanding of some things already.  The only somewhat active forum seemed to also presume you knew what was going on and such.  Even though I've read a lot of trashing of the various forms of Basic on the internet as a first language to learn, it just seems to make sense to me because it doesn't seem to hide? anything much.  It seems things like python seem to run on autopilot in terms of making sense.  Seems as though with python, you are using your phone to translate and speak a foreign language for you and then thinking  you are fluent, but if someone took your phone away, you wouldn't have any idea how to speak in that language anymore.  Whereas with basic, once your translating phone was taken away, you would still have somewhat of an idea and ability to communicate with people, because you know how some of the internals work.  Anyways, I'm hoping this place may have more support for noobs and active community than smilebasic4.  I've looked through the forums and don't really see a particular place for beginner tutorials or whatnot.  Any suggestions on where I might start from the ground up.  I apologize if there is an obvious room for noobs and I missed it.  I have very severe ADHD and I tend to overlook things sometimes.  The ADHD is a large factor in my inability to progress past a certain point on my own.  I get overwhelmed when many terms or concepts I don't know get thrown at me all at once.  I remember when first starting and going to stackoverflow to ask questions, and the answers left me more confused than the original problem i was having.