FAF coding school!

[EcoNoob]

Most of us always wanted to contribute to FAF but lack the coding skills to do so. Especially for those people, Softly(Softles) will be hosting a FAF coding school where he will explain how to start contributing. There is absolutely 0 coding skill required! There will be a dedicated chat room for all participants where he will explain how the server works and the logic behind it, how to set up your own development environment on your pc, how to make changes, how to test those, the basics of the coding itself and maybe fix a few bugs .

This session will be hosted on the upcoming saturday, the ENTIRE day, starting from 9 am GMT. Our beloved Sheeo will also join to help out where he can, so even your most difficult questions will get answered.

We are looking forward to seeing you there to make the difference for our beloved community, please spread this to any motivated friends you know to maximize the profit of Softly's devoted time. See you soon!

[Softly]

People with less than 0 coding skill are welcome too.

[IceDreamer]

If you're all still doing stuff at 9PM GMT I'll be back from work and willing to help.

[Lieutenant Lich]

I'll come for the session. I think I'll stick to mods but summer is coming soon, I'll see what I can do.

[FunWithGuns4]

Oh sweet; I've just started teaching myself Python, so I'm looking forward to learning a bit from someone who knows their stuff.

A couple questions: What language is the server in? (And if it's Python, Python 2 or 3?) What sorts of things does the FAF server need help with, in case this inspires any novice coders to want to help after Saturday?

[yorick]

i'll probably be around as well, gotta get into all that server stuff someday

The server is written python 3 afaik, the client is also in python, but python 2.7. Regarding issues there is this https://github.com/FAForever/server/issues, but htat doesnt seem to be up to date, there are some issues with rating not being calculated correctly for example.

[keyser]

Will try to join at some point too

[speed2]

I should be around as well if anyone was intrested into coop missions or ingame tutorrials and hanted to help me with those

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Very good idea, thanks.
Post something on the lobby news page?

[biass]

I'll see if i can be around, i like the idea of picking up a little bit of scripting stuff