kellessdee here,

I have been teetering on verge of writing a full tutorial on ruby scripting for a while, and have had difficulty deciding how to tie this into learning RGSS as well. In the end, I decided that one should not skip out on thoroughly learning Ruby prior to jumping into RPG Maker scripting.

Ruby has a lot to offer, and I feel a lot of people try to jump too far ahead, jumping right into RGSS. While I understand the feeling of wanting to learn something NOW, but if you really take the time to learn, you'll find there are a great number of resources available in Ruby's core library that can aid in RPG Maker development greatly.

I have decided that I am going to do this tutorial as a series of mini-tutorials, releasing one per week. This tutorial will be categorized into "lessons." In each lesson, I will first go over the topic of that lesson (mixing in some examples and demonstrations - to try and balance theory and practical application) and I will try to finish off with a few practice problems (where possible/applicable). In the following lesson, I will touch on any practice problems I presented.

These tutorials are going to be geared towards someone with no programming background, although if you do have some kind of programming background (even RPG Maker XP eventing knowledge helps!) it will help greatly. However, it is not necessary.

The lesson plan will be outlined in the table of contents entry (next entry), and I will use that entry to post links to each lesson that has been released.

Please note, that this plan is subject to change.

I do not claim to be a ruby expert, however, I do feel that I know enough about it to attempt to teach it. If you need me to elaborate on something, leave a comment and I will try to answer your question to the best of my ability. Likewise, if you feel I am wrong about something, feel free to correct me in the comments as well. I am only human, so by posting any errors I make will help improve the quality of these lessons for everyone.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave a comment, send me a PM, or email:

kellessdee@gmail.com

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