Spiral Staircase

Hello!
I am new to the whole computercraft mod. I an learning LUA; and I have made my first computercraft program:

It makes a spiral staircase.

That's pretty much it.
Load it, tell it a number of iterations and it will make a staircase for you.
it will place selected blocks underneath if there is a hole.

Give me any feedback / ideas for improvement.

Thanks!

Link:
http://pastebin.com/M0Umz2KH

Cmd:
pastebin get M0Umz2KH spiral_staircase

EDIT fixed it.

Hey pretty nice for a first program, and clean too!

Just a tad of feedback, your check and place function is pretty useless right now since turtle.place will already only place if there is nothing already there.
Also, just personal taste but your step functiin could be broken up right after your place, and run twice with a turnLeft after the second run.

jerimo;

I did not know that about turtle.place. Thanks! Yeah, I think that the step function probably should be broken up. Thanks for checking it out and giving feedback.

stubob, on 14 March 2015 - 06:40 PM said:

jerimo;

I did not know that about turtle.place. Thanks! Yeah, I think that the step function probably should be broken up. Thanks for checking it out and giving feedback.

My pleasure! Also, welcome to the great world of programming

cool

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I've just tried this but am getting the following error: bios:367: [string "stairs"]:28: 'end' expected (to close 'function' at line 20)

Looking at the code the end is there but I'm not sure how to go forward?

Hrmmm not sure what is going on with that. It was working on an older version
getting back into computer craft, Ill look at the script

@Kayda, I just fixed it.