How do I make a plugin?

I know at first glance this may seem very broad. I am just trying to look for someone who is nice enough to sort of teach me how to write a plugin. I mean you don't have to be a teacher, like someone I can just ask questions when I get stuck or need help. Please contact reply here and contact me at [email protected]

Anyone who helps me will receive a high rank on my server of which is very big and popular.

Please no trolling

 

First off, do you know the Java programming language?
Or at least any programming language?


I just started so I really shouldn't be at liberty to tell people how to learn, but I used this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqLI1Cbmvw

That video makes the assumption you can already set up a server.

 

There is some good info on the wiki. Check here: http://wiki.bukkit.org/Programming_A_Plugin

And I doubt you will need more info than the HUGE plugin tutorial: http://wiki.bukkit.org/HUGE_Plugin_Tutorial

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

If I have a plugin that compiles, assuming I have the class that extends JavaPlugin done right, is there anything that I need to do other than clean/build it to a .jar before I drop the .jar into my server?

I'm using NetBeans 7.0 for my IDE.

 

@Everdras
As far as I know, no. I was using Eclipse to make my plugins, and I just set the compile destination right to my plugins folder so that I could quickly hit "Run Server" and test it out.

It might be different on NetBeans, but I doubt it.

 

TheNewBoston

 

This can help

 

Learning java:
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-135f-4508-a5aa-866adcae1111
http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston#p/c/FE2CE09D83EE3E28/0/Hl-zzrqQoSE (from wiki)
http://www.javavideotutes.com/lessons (from wiki)
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html (from wiki)
http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/CatalogJava.htm (from wiki)
http://www.javacoffeebreak.com/java101/java101.html (from wiki)
http://www.google.com/

Learning Bukkit API:
http://wiki.bukkit.org:8194/HUGE_Plugin_Tutorial
http://wiki.bukkit.org:8194/Programming_A_Plugin
https://github.com/Bukkit/
http://javadoc.lukegb.com/Bukkit/
http://forums.bukkit.org/forums/plugin-development.5/
http://www.google.com/
http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui (for getting plugin source)

 

Ive learned 100% from this and reading the Bukkit Javadocs.

 

Aside from plugin.yml apparently that's all you need. Thanks for the reply though =)