asking permission

Hi guys! Im kinda new on JGO (2 days?) but been visiting the web since a few weeks. Im from argentina, I speak spanish obviusly and when I started with LWJGL, Slick and Eclipse to make a game I found tutorials on internet but…I found the tutorials very complicated. I dont know if spanish post are allowed here, but I would like to post an spanish tutorial of “Setting Up LWJGL+Slick2D+Eclipse” here on JGO. I made it for myself but now I want to share it (if someone helps me with the translation, we can post it on english too). Its very well explained, step by step in an easy way.

So…im asking permmision to make a post in spanish (or spanish and english).

BTW, i dunno if this is the right place for a tutorial like this.

Thank guys! The forum is awesome.

There are already really good step-by-step tutorials on youtube.

I dont see how that would be too complicated ???

A Spanish article for me, is as useful as a Dutch article would be for you.

One of the most important things that keeps a community together is the ability to understand eachother, which at the very least requires a common language.

An English translation would be very welcome, ofcourse :slight_smile:

Why don’t you simply translate your tutorial and then post it? Your English seems fully understable.

hehe yeah, but a lot of people have problems with the Native Library location, or the amount of jar to import. Also, all is reduced to follow steps. When someone is starting on this world of jars, javadocs, ide’s and stuff it gets very confusing and the people just follow steps with no idea of what are they doing. Even doing that, sometimes doesn’t work either.

Yes, you are right. But the idea of spanish is to help someone like me who been looking for a good tutorial fully understandable on his own lenguage.
I belive that people must know why is neccesary each step, and not only follow them.

Ok. I’ll translate it to english and post them both under spoilers to not disturb people with text on other lenguage.
Could be also dutch if somebody - im not talking about riven :P- want to translate it xD
(multiLenguage-post-system-coming?)

Anyway, I asked permmision becouse I dont know the rules of JGO xD It’s the truly. lol

Ok guys this is the english version. Feel free to modify everything you want. Looks like pretty well to me but Im sure that can be better.

English Version

:slight_smile:

P.D.: cant make spoilers work

if you cannot follow a tutorial because its in english and not in your native language, you really have bigger problems

Follow a tutorial its simple. Understand different. Just want to add some info in spanish for people who can read in english but prefer his own native language to understand better.

The issue is that 99% of tech related content (how-to, tutorials, docs) are in English.

It’d be a wiser investment of time to get yourself to comprehend English, than it is to write/find tutorials in your (non-english) native language.

I would tend to make an exception for “getting started” tutorials that show you how to get things set up. It’s very frustrating to follow any other technical documentation for a library or framework when it’s hard to set up. Though I never really get the point of condensing these setup guides into follow-by-rote recipe form rather than explaining why every step is the way it is: you may as well just provide an executable script in that case.

Don’t worry, tutorials usually only use Present Tense :point: and I’m not english native speaker but spell checker always help me, not in grammar but at least correcting spell.

Almost the 100% of the info is on english. It’s impossible to do something good if the developer can’t read english. But the idea of this was to make a “first tutorial” of the world of slick on spanish to help some people to introduce to the library.

Thats all. I decided to make my own tutorial, and then I realized that it could help other people, thats why I asked permission to post it in spanish here. I dont know if its allowed, just that.

It is certainly allowed, but not encouraged. You’re not going to get moderated and the thread is not going to get deleted.

It will have to be published in the [Miscellaneous Topics] board though, because it’s of no value for the vast majority of our visitors. You might want to publish your tutorial on a Spanish site instead, where people will appreciate it.

Yep, I guess that I should do that. Thanks for the answer!

Just an FYI – the old website and source/binaries are no longer maintained by Kevglass.

New website:
http://www.slick2d.org/

New Source Code Repository (latest is dev branch)
How to Pull The Latest Slick Code
Spanish translation of the above guide, via Google

Very wise statement. But it is not the language it is written in that does it - tutorials tend to not provide understanding at all, only copy/paste code and/or a list of actions (click here, do that) to blindly follow.

Easy to understand tutorials here.