Import PowerPointalexname = “Alex M. Lobl”craigname = “Craig S. Tomastik”

Title = “To Script, or Not to script, That Is the

Question”Import Title

“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare

Words of Wisdom from William Shakespeare

File file = new File(“A Rather Silly Photograph.jpeg”);

• Scripting is the use of a scripting language to implement commonly used parts of a program that otherwise would require constant recoding or calls.

• Scripting Languages: a programming language that supports the writing of scripts, programs written for a software environment that automate the execution of tasks which could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator.

cout << “What Is Scripting…? “

• Quick/Easy way to read game data• Saves time, increases productivity & increases creativity• Provide extensibility• Loose structure• Interpreted from Source Code

require ‘What a Scripting Language Can Do For You!’

• \item Lua• \item Ruby• \item Python• \item TCL• \item Perl• \item Scheme• \item Java• \item JavaScript \ldots

\end{itemize}

\begin{comment} Scripting_Languages \end{comment}\begin{itemize}

• (load “Mario.java”)• (load “RPG_Maker.exe”)

;;Examples

;;Examples (4exact!.jpg)

;;Examples (almost230.jpg)

;;Examples (ScriptedMovement.jpg)

;;Examples (wordfail.jpg)

;;Examples (wordsuccess.jpg)