My First Bot

[Joe[x86]]

I want some help making a bot that connects to battle.net through starcraft hashes. Can someone help me? (I have no idea where to start.)

[LordNevar]

Well this is the right place, but this has been discussed alot. Use the search feature and the answers you seek will present themselves

[Tuberload]

There is a topic present in the reference that will help you. Please feel free to read it.

[Joe[x86]]

Thank you guys. Yoni proved worthless on this, and I really don't think he cared. Skywing only asked for passcodes, and ended up calling me gay.

[Falcon[anti-yL]]

You might want to check out BnetDocs.
http://bnetdocs.valhallalegends.com/

[Kp]

Thank you guys. Yoni proved worthless on this, and I really don't think he cared. Skywing only asked for passcodes, and ended up calling me gay.

I find this rather interesting for several reasons.  First, no member is under any obligation to help you in any way.  Second, Skywing is gone for several more days, so you must have been talking to an imitator or a Skywing AI.

[iago]

Haha, I don't think Skywing would call anybody gay.  Sounds like an impersonator.

[Joe[x86]]

Dave@USEast. I am sorry if I sounded rude, when I said Yoni was useless. However, Yoni[vL]@USEast said that Dave was Skywing. I don't know, but Yoni could be being impersonated too.

[Stealth]

Haha, Dave is Denial. You've just been Yoni-had!

[iago]

Haha, Dave is Denial. You've just been Yoni-had!

Yup.  And Denial WOULD call you gay.

[Kp]

I don't know, but Yoni could be being impersonated too.

Or it could be that everyone decided to toy with you, since you pulled the equivalent of a would-be kiddy league walking up to a player in the majors and asking for "a little help".  It's not uncommon for us to turn away people significantly more advanced than you, so it should be little surprise you're not getting helped.  Before you complain, consider: how long did it take you to reach this point?  Probably not very long.  If we did help everyone who got even as far as you have, we'd be deluged in newbies and never have any time to ourselves.

[Negotiable]

I don't know, but Yoni could be being impersonated too.

Or it could be that everyone decided to toy with you, since you pulled the equivalent of a would-be kiddy league walking up to a player in the majors and asking for "a little help".  It's not uncommon for us to turn away people significantly more advanced than you, so it should be little surprise you're not getting helped.  Before you complain, consider: how long did it take you to reach this point?  Probably not very long.  If we did help everyone who got even as far as you have, we'd be deluged in newbies and never have any time to ourselves.

Yes, but if we help more people get to our point then there would be a bigger base of "advanced" people who could help out the less advanced people.  Don't you think it would balance out as more and more people because "advanced"?

[Eli_1]

I eat llamas.

Cannibal!

I've tried helping people learn VB, but it's extremely hard to teach people who know close to nothing about programming. Unless they go buy a book, or take a class, and actually learn some of the basics/terminology on their own, it's a waste of time.

[MyndFyre]

I eat llamas.

Cannibal!

I've tried helping people learn VB, but it's extremely hard to teach people who know close to nothing about programming. Unless they go buy a book, or take a class, and actually learn some of the basics/terminology on their own, it's a waste of time.

Generally speaking, it's because they don't know the terminology.  Terms like "identifier," "variable," "constant," "object," and "function" mystify people.

[Kp]

It's not uncommon for us to turn away people significantly more advanced than you, so it should be little surprise you're not getting helped.  Before you complain, consider: how long did it take you to reach this point?  Probably not very long.  If we did help everyone who got even as far as you have, we'd be deluged in newbies and never have any time to ourselves.

Yes, but if we help more people get to our point then there would be a bigger base of "advanced" people who could help out the less advanced people.  Don't you think it would balance out as more and more people because "advanced"?

An interesting question, albeit not a new one.  Unfortunately, you assume that the people we help would in turn go on to help others.  It has been my experience that most of the people who need that kind of hand-holding really don't have the ability to reach a level where they could do what you suggest.  So, we'd end up with really advanced beggars instead of advanced programmers.  Demonstrating basic problem solving skills is a major step in proving oneself worthy of others' attention.