Nasal introduction

Sandbox for starting a beginner's introduction to Nasal scripting:

• http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=8995
• http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=8867

At the moment (10/2011) this is more or less a collection of ideas that shall eventually be covered, if you have any other ideas/requests, please feel free to add them here. Also, if you'd like to get involved in updating and improving the existing documentation, please just go ahead, too!

Suggested topics include:

• various options for loading and starting Nasal
• Nasal variables
• Nasal arrays
• Nasal hashes
• nested data structures in Nasal (multi-dimensional arrays and such)
• control loops, Nasal control structures
• using the Nasal standard library
• using the Nasal FlightGear library
• Nasal access to the property tree
• geospatial computations in Nasal
• simple physics problems in Nasal
• Nasal in GUI dialog files
• Nasal in scenery XML files
• spawning and controlling 3D objects in Nasal
• spawning and controlling AI objects in Nasal
• creating scripted instruments in Nasal
• creating subsystems in Nasal
• creating FDMs in Nasal
• commmon problems and solutions in Nasal
• exception handling in Nasal
• multiplayer scripting in Nasal (mp_broadcast.nas)
• object oriented programming in Nasal
• Howto: Functional programming in Nasal
• multi threaded programming in Nasal (worker threads)
• Howto: Continuation-passing style programming in Nasal (threading related)
• Howto: Neural networks in Nasal
• Nasal optimization and efficiency hints
• Known Nasal issues (known bugs and shortcomings)