Inform 7 for Programmers

Inform 7 for Programmers is a tutorial written by Ron Newcomb, 6 Jan 2009, build 5U92. The original single-page copy of this document can be found at http://www.plover.net/~pscion/inform7.html .

Contents

• Part 1
  • In a Nutshell
  • Types, Variables, and Objects
  • Class And Prejudice
  • The Coding Imperative
  • Boolean Adjectives
• Part 2
  • Patterned Procedures
  • Functions Decide on a Value
  • Say Phrases
  • Sweet Relations
  • Rules of Thumb
• Part 3
  • Rulebooks: White-box Paradigm
  • Events are Actions
  • No Lights, No Camera, Just Action
  • Understanding Our Player, Our Parser
  • Time for a Scene
• Part 4
  • Arrays Have Been Tabled
  • Named Values Everywhere
  • T.E.X.T.
  • Precisely One Spoon-unit Of Sugar
  • Backstage Activities
• Part 5
  • Testing Commands
  • Indistinguishable Memory
  • Grammar Gotchas
  • Paradigm Leaning
  • To Hack... or not... to Hack?