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Inform 7 for Programmers

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This page contains the text of Inform 7 for Programmers, a tutorial written by Ron Newcomb, 6 Jan 2009, build 5U92.

The PDF of a 2011 version can be found on the Plover.net website.

See also: Ron Newcomb; Inform 7.

Contents

  • Part 1
    • In a Nutshell
    • Types, Variables, and Objects
    • Class And Prejudice
    • The Coding Imperative
    • Boolean Adjectives
  • Part 2
    • Patterned Procedures
    • Functions Decide on a Value
    • Say Phrases
    • Sweet Relations
    • Rules of Thumb
  • Part 3
    • Rulebooks: White-box Paradigm
    • Events are Actions
    • No Lights, No Camera, Just Action
    • Understanding Our Player, Our Parser
    • Time for a Scene
  • Part 4
    • Arrays Have Been Tabled
    • Named Values Everywhere
    • T.E.X.T.
    • Precisely One Spoon-unit Of Sugar
    • Backstage Activities
  • Part 4b
    • Time, Turns, and Tenses
    • Verbs of State and Verbs of Change
    • Present-Perfect Tense : has ever been true
    • Two Past Tenses : only for relation verbs on a case-by-case basis
    • Turns in a row, Times that started
    • The Future is Scheduled
  • Part 5
    • Testing Commands
    • Indistinguishable Memory
    • Grammar Gotchas
    • Paradigm Leaning
    • To Hack... or not... to Hack?
Inform 7 for Programmers by Ron Newcomb
Contents - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 4b - Part 5
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  • This page was last edited on 17 August 2020, at 22:50.
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