Getting started resources

[RobMayer]

So, instead of creating more and more issues, I figure it's time for me to put my money where my mouth is.

Let me preface by saying that I'm an experienced web-dev and I'm very comfortable writing code, using git, etc.
I've been doing some reading and I'm struggling to find a good "getting started" that doesn't assume you're starting from scratch, and from what I can tell this project has a particular structure that doesn't lend itself to what most "getting started" guides assume a project would be shaped like - I could be way off, mind you.

I don't want to waste anyone's time by asking them to hand-hold me, but I am wondering if anyone can recommend some guides (preferably in video medium) that both assumes a similar setup as DLS here, and doesn't assume that I'm a complete newb at computer science?

[SebLague]

Hi Rob, I don't really know a guide to recommend. It's true that the project structure is a bit odd, especially for a Unity project. Pretty much nothing is done through the Unity editor, there's just a single UnityMain script in the DLS scene to basically kick everything off.

Do you have the project up and running in Unity already? Feel free to ask any questions, I'm happy to answer.

[SebLague]

Alright happy to hear you've got it running -- that's often half the battle! By the way, if you wouldn't mind taking a quick look through whatever chips you have already built, and just checking to see if they're still working properly in the current main branch (version 2.1.5) I'd really appreciate that. I made some (very minor) optimizations to the sim -- and theoretically there should be no change in behaviour, but I'm always nervous of sneaky regressions as I haven't yet built up a very robust set of test projects to verify against. To access your projects from the editor, you just need to go into SavePaths.cs and set UseBuildPathInEditor to true.

[RobMayer]

Gladly :)

[RobMayer]

I'm not seeing any changes in behaviour between v2.1.4 and main in any of my exploratory setups (which, are mostly comparisons of flip-flops from #326 ) when single stepping or running at speed. And my library of intermediate chips seem to be behaving the same.

Edit: I have not had time to integrate the pulse former into any of my setups, so my own test suite doesn't have coverage on that.

also Teehee >.<

[SebLague]

Okay good to get a bit of extra confidence, thank you :) Must really find time to build a proper test suite one of these days. Btw I just pushed a fix for the wire col duplication issue. Ended up getting carried away with some refactoring, so it's not a super clean example to compare notes with though, sorry about that!

[RobMayer]

Lol, no worries - I'm a fairly smart cookie: I'll manage.
Thanks for taking the time.