Can someone walk me through something?

[mossy furnace]

I want to create a blink effect but I don’t know how and all the tuts on yt haven’t worked…

[sick parrot]

try using recursive decomposition on the problem and apply computational thinking to solve it

[mossy furnace]

Oh uh

I’ll try..

[lyric moat]

oh my god

[sick parrot]

that's the long way of saying use your brain

[mossy furnace]

Ive been trying but everytime I think I’m finished the ui messes up

😭😭😭😭

[sick parrot]

break the problem down into smaller parts and deal with each one individually, don't try to do it as a whole / all at once

[lyric moat]

but pyro

what if i cant even solve the smaller part

[sick parrot]

then you're cooked, or at least not trying hard enough

[mossy furnace]

I think I’m cooked then

[sick parrot]

what smaller parts did you end up with?

[mossy furnace]

I managed to make it blink but

The problem is

It’s not covering the full screen

It’s leaving a little tiny spot in the top

[sick parrot]

screengui.IgnoreGuiInset -> true

[mossy furnace]

OHhh you know what

I think I forgot about that

[sick parrot]

yep that's breaking down the problem 👍

[mossy furnace]

I’ll add it in the script and see what it shows now after I’m finished with my chocolate cake and pizza with lemon Italian ice sparkling water

[sick parrot]

instead of "oh it just doesnt look right", you specified exactly what small part of it wasn't working. well done.

[mossy furnace]

Yeah that was the only problem

The timing was good

[sick parrot]

the better you get at doing that, the better you'll get at coding

[sick parrot]

and wait, that was the only problem from the start?

[mossy furnace]

Yes

Lol

I should’ve explained it better

Sorry

Or showed a video

[sick parrot]

"theres a gap at the top of the screen" is much more conclusive and definitive than "i want to create effect i dont know how the tutorials dont work" wouldn't you agree?

[mossy furnace]

But I was really frustrated when I made the forum

And didn’t think to say it

[mossy furnace]

Yes 😞

I’ll be more detailed next time I have a problem my peanut brain can’t figure out

[sick parrot]

you should get into the habit of explaining problems to a caveman who doesn't know anything about code

[sick parrot]

don't be more detailed or try to overthink it

just state exactly what you see, against what it is supposed to look like

like the more ooga booga caveman you are about it, the better

[mossy furnace]

Ahh noted

[sick parrot]

like here it'd be "ooga booga BLINK UI NOT COVER WHOL SCREEN"

[mossy furnace]

LOL

[sick parrot]

i'm serious

the better you get at doing that, the better you'll be at scripting

[mossy furnace]

Do i also add the ooga booga?

To my sentences

[sick parrot]

you know what i mean....

if it helps

this is actually a real debugging technique, it's called rubber duck debugging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

[mossy furnace]

There’s a website for this?!

[sick parrot]

to describe this in other words, it's basically "state the obvious as much as you can"

that's why you might often see me asking stupid or obvious questions

[mossy furnace]

Oh Dw I do it too

[sick parrot]

ya, if a question is obvious and you haven't asked it, ur doin it rong

[mossy furnace]

Hey thanks for the advice

[sick parrot]

Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge. Describing the code, and comparing to what it actually does, exposes inconsistencies.

[mossy furnace]

I appreciate the knowledge I have stored in my brain

I have to go finish my unhealthy breakfast see you later comrade