Hey guys, today i was working on a plugin that allows you to make scripts with shortcut words, and it will replace those words with correct syntax!
I was hoping that some of you would like to test it can get back to me with questions/suggestions on it. I found it shortened my scripting time quite a bit.
P.S. > For those of you planning on commenting suggestions please read:
1.) I know the readme needs some touching up on organization
2.) This is beta, in v1 you can define your own shortcut words
A neat idea, but I’m not sure of its purpose. Scripting isn’t supposed to be quick, but a careful and thoughtful process to avoid bugs or other issues. This is my philosophy however; it seems teaching people that they don’t have to give their full effort into making things work merely makes them less of an efficient worker/scripter in this scenario. This is why I don’t approve auto-correct systems or “intellisense” I think it’s called. I believe if you take the time to do things and memorize what you need for specific jobs, rather than rely on systems to help do it for you, you won’t receive as much out of it as someone who’s doing otherwise.
For an example, I think why so many people these days have frequent spelling errors in their academic works, or daily life, is because of auto-correct systems when they’re texting, or typing a paper, etc.
I may be going out of topic here, but I believe that one day, technology will ironically be the end to an intelligent and sophisticated society. Sure there are obvious restrictions that attempt to be held, but machine power over man power to this day shows no bounds. I believe, as technology continues to evolve and expand, people will expect so much and give so little in their daily lives, that once these assistants are gone, there will be nothing left but foolish sheep with no mind or ambition of their own.
I could go on and on, but once again, I’m going off topic.
[quote] A neat idea, but I’m not sure of its purpose. Scripting isn’t supposed to be quick, but a careful and thoughtful process to avoid bugs or other issues. This is my philosophy however; it seems teaching people that they don’t have to give their full effort into making things work merely makes them less of an efficient worker/scripter in this scenario. This is why I don’t approve auto-correct systems or “intellisense” I think it’s called. I believe if you take the time to do things and memorize what you need for specific jobs, rather than rely on systems to help do it for you, you won’t receive as much out of it as someone who’s doing otherwise.
For an example, I think why so many people these days have frequent spelling errors in their academic works, or daily life, is because of auto-correct systems when they’re texting, or typing a paper, etc.
I may be going out of topic here, but I believe that one day, technology will ironically be the end to an intelligent and sophisticated society. Sure there are obvious restrictions that attempt to be held, but machine power over man power to this day shows no bounds. I believe, as technology continues to evolve and expand, people will expect so much and give so little in their daily lives, that once these assistants are gone, there will be nothing left but foolish sheep with no mind or ambition of their own.
I could go on and on, but once again, I’m going off topic. [/quote]
One can construe that in light of the recent advances in technology there has been a decline in overall National/ International educational growth in the fields of Technical Sciences, however this is a general statement. The whole purpose of technology is to allow us humans to do something we could not do before. Will we devolve into mindless sheep? Certainly not- We will just find more things to excel in (as far as the academia and business communities are concerned). As a culture we will simply keep looking for more things to make. We cannot expect a point in time where there is not something we haven’t already made, and if we can the amount of time for this to happen would far surpass the amount of time Humans have as a living species. Technological growth is a on-going experience. When we cannot make smaller and smaller machines we will turn to looking to improve efficiency in computations, then efficiency of the computations themselves. Even after that- when we know that all that is solved we will be looking for better ways to power our machines, and different ways to perform more logic gates.
I could go on, and on- but needless to say i disagree with your statement. There will always be a thinker that influences business/education that will invoke more thinkers.
The end goal of technology is to better improve human life based on needs.
As every generation will have different needs this will cause technology to only get better and better. Which usually comes at the expense of those who do what technology does on their own forcing them to get a new job or become useless.
The end goal of technology is to better improve human life based on needs.
As every generation will have different needs this will cause technology to only get better and better. Which usually comes at the expense of those who do what technology does on their own forcing them to get a new job or become useless.[/quote]
Off topic… Isn’t the point of quoting to… You know, quote the person you were replying to? Otherwise just reply and say who it’s to. Not trying to sound rude, but yeah.
I highly recommend against using something like this.
If this actually saves you a non-negligible amount of time coding then there are other issues that you need to be solving with your process before you go using this as a solution. Not being able to type out the code in your brain fast enough is rarely if ever the limiting factor on development time.
[quote] I highly recommend against using something like this.
If this actually saves you a non-negligible amount of time coding then there are other issues that you need to be solving with your process before you go using this as a solution. Not being able to type out the code in your brain fast enough is rarely if ever the limiting factor on development time. [/quote]
Meanwhile things such as Intellisense and Autocomplete offer you a fair advantage on completing code faster because in most cases you already know the next work you want and typing the first few letters is a faster process than typing the whole thing. Introducing short-cut words that are then later parsed into the correct work is a dangerous idea, as you begin to learn the short-cut words and forget what the original word was over time. Roblox already has some form of Intellisense in the scripting editor now so that’s all you should be needing. Having to process shortcut-words is just going to make me spend more time thinking than I otherwise should.