Quote Originally Posted by 'algol',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150022#post15 0022
Were there any guides/resources that you found particularly helpful?
"World of Warcraft Programming" isbn: 978-0-470-22981-1
it had some good primers and the API Reference is GREAT

www.wowace.com - the forums for Ace3 framework.. OrionShock and Allara were most helpful

old.wowace.com/wiki/ - until they port the wiki for Ace3 API docs to the new server, this is great

www.lua.org - really good for that initial "what does raw LUA do" stuff


Also, just looking at the source code of other addons. There is an incredible range of horrible-to-wonderful in terms of the coding quality. When you're just learning a new language, it's usually easy to tell horrible from wonderful, but a little tougher to tell best practices from "yeah, it'll work". Each language has its "idioms" and eccentricities. As I mentioned in an earlier post, ironically, one of the best written addons I've seen (in terms of clarity of code and modularization and good use of Ace3) is Jamba - an addon that if I had known it was out there, I wouldn't have made my own.