Customer Reviews

World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons

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James has been in the WoW addon field for years and his addons are second to none. Back a few years ago he took the time to help me with my first addon and I appreciated the help. I owned the first book and happy to add this one to my library.

The books are well written and contain the information you need to begin writing your own addons and more. They are excellent reference books that will keep you writing addons for a long time. They also have a website to cover any changes made to the API by Blizzard.

Plus the cover is by Scott Johnson, what more could you want.

Bouvi (Earthen Ring - AIE)

This is a huge book covering all the details of writing a mod in lua. The elements are presented in a logical method and show an actual mod being designed and programmed from the ground up (BagBuddy). This is an excellent book that takes you from a beginner mod programmer to being able to design and create whatever mod you want. If you don't want to create your own mods, the book will show you how to tweak your existing mods to make them work the way you want them to. Even after you have read the book, you will use it as a reference for quite some time as you work on your own mods. I honestly had no idea that the WoW API provided so much of the foundation for building mods. My hat is off to both Blizzard for creating such an environment that welcomes mods and definitely this book for presenting mod building to me in such a great way. The cover art is great too.

I needed to design a few different addons for some research I'm doing, and this book had everything I needed. You may have difficulty if you've never programmed before, but if you already have a little knowledge of programming fundamentals, this is a great tool. Highly recommended.

This may be a bit though if you lack experience in xml. And some readers may get lost as the progression jumps ahead of what you have be able to learn from the last chapter.

The book contains very nice instructions how to code a proper addon, I couldn't find anywhere this good guide on the internet.

5/5

This is absolutely the perfect guide to learning how to program for Warcraft if you're already familiar with programming in other languages. The author covers all the right topics in precisely the right order necessary to understand the interface. He covers everything from the basics of LUA all the way to the most advanced topics (secure code) and provides examples everywhere.

Highly recommended for anybody who is serious about learning this stuff.

The size of the book can be very daunting, but everything is so well explained that if you can skim-read the majority of it if you already have experience in programming. Well structures, explained and plenty of examples on what does what and where. Great book!

The first half of the book are good, but the rest is just reference padding with none to few comments on each API functions that can be found on the web.