Intro to Compressing Blocks 🟨

[Slim]

These buttons on the code blocks?

[Bardy_2913]

Yes, they help a lot when compressing.

[Slim]

Yeah, you can on both. Since the title is going to change the title to include “Intro”, do you want to add it to gimkit-beginners?

@Slim

Since the title is going to change the title

What lol

Yes, you can too. I’m writing in the post above.

[Bardy_2913]

Done @Slim . Hope you liked it!

[Slim]

I alr did it @Bardy_2913

[Slim]

Here, it tells you the difficulty.

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@Blackhole927

Difficulty Ratings

On some guides you may see some colored emojis. These are from the difficulty rating system, a way for you to quickly find the difficulty of a guide. Below is a chart of what they mean:
- Very Very Easy
- Very Easy
- Easy
- Medium
- Hard
- Very Hard

[Cellofive]

Here’s a different version:
= 0/10 (art)
= 1-2-3/10
= 4-5/10
= 6/10
= 7-8/10
= 9-10/10

[NoNoWahoo]

0 out of 10 isn’t always art in my experience. I have a post I made around a month ago that isn’t art, but is a 0/10.

[EggNoodle]

0/10 is supposed to be only art though. Easiest will be blue or green.

[Bardy_2913]

Bump! This guide is soo useful for beginners

[Slim]

@Slim

Counters

Did you know using a huge 500-memory code block to set a true/false property isn’t worth it? There is a MUCH better way to save memory on this!

Use the counter to set a number property instead! 0 is going to represent false, and 1 is going to represent true.

Now if you ever want to change a number property that is acting like a true/false property, use channels or wires to increment or decrement the counter!

I added counters! I realized I could add this on a recent post.

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I now realize there is a lot more on this post then I would have thought.

Should we change this to because it involves coding and understanding what coding is?

• Yes
• No

[Bardy_2913]

I think not. Again, it is a intro after all🤷‍♂️

[Slim]

If I wrote a topic about ‘Intro to compressing C++’ would you still consider that ?

[Bardy_2913]

@Slim

C++’

What does that mean???

[Slim]

Look it up.

[Bardy_2913]

Oh heck nah💀
I could barely learn Js for beginners lol.

[qwertyuiopasdffghjkl]

Compressing Blocks is another way of saying concatenation.
Concatenation has other guides on this already.

[Bardy_2913]

This is an intro, though.

Ben’s version of a timer for the game host!

You shouldn’t feel bad, there’s nothing wrong here. I don’t know why people get so uppity about duplicate guides. It’s not preferred, but duplicates aren’t the end of the world unless you’re directly copying from another guide. Don’t let people get you down:)

Plus blackhole said it himself that its fine as long as its not a work for word copy.

[Kosm0-o]

@qwertyuiopasdffghjkl

concatenation

This guide is not a duplicate. Why? Because this is a guide about compressing blocks in general not concatenation. Concatenation is just combining multiple strings^[1] together.

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1. search it up ↩︎

[Gimaginor]

Great guide! very helpful because i am bad at blocks. (If it says i edited this guide its because i actedentally clicked the edit button instead of reply i didnt do nothing)