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Why coding: C#

Why coding: C#

From the course: Grasshopper: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Why coding: C#

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- [Instructor] Hello and welcome. This is the first in a series of videos focused on coding custom components in Grasshopper. Intended for people who are novice to coding, who are coming at this without any prior computer science experience. So you've probably seen the custom components in the Grasshopper interface, the C sharp component the Python component, the VB component. If I grab the C-sharp component, I open it up. It just creates a little space for me to write in some custom code and build my own functionality into a custom component. But this can seem inaccessible to people that are new to programming, little harder to work with. And the question is why would you dip your toe in? So I want to talk about a really simple basic use case where someone who is completely new to coding might take the time to build a really simple custom component. So imagine you are working with surfaces. There's lots of tools that have…

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