what's a good first project?
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what's a good first project?
Hello. I've just started watching the tutorials and am considering signing up for the next webinar series. I have an ambitious app in mind which would include database/cloud use. Would you recommend starting with a simpler project to help with the learning curve? I am a graphic designer with very little coding skill...
Re: what's a good first project?
Hi roddy,
1. welcome to the forum!
2.
You should take a look at some or all of these stacks to get you started with the basics of Livecode:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revscriptc ... ences.html
And please come back here with any question (that might not be answered by a look into the dictionary
)
Best
Klaus
1. welcome to the forum!
2.
YES! In any case!roddy wrote:Would you recommend starting with a simpler project to help with the learning curve? I am a graphic designer with very little coding skill...
You should take a look at some or all of these stacks to get you started with the basics of Livecode:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revscriptc ... ences.html
And please come back here with any question (that might not be answered by a look into the dictionary
)Best
Klaus
Re: what's a good first project?
Hi.
You must start with a simple project. Along with the lessons, tutorials and the help community, you can learn to program fairly quickly. That said, it takes time and perseverance. Nothing valuable can be learned without this sort of effort, and LC is valuable; it is not a toy. Too many new users assume they will be writing apps in a day. Not so, not at all.
An address book that can find your family members, and sort and print mailing labels to those alone, a calculator or a metric/english conversion gadget, a logbook for recipes or whatever. These tasks are simple in scope, but not so in execution. The test for you will be to find out if you cannot leave certain aspects of these projects alone until they are exactly the way you want them. If you are up late at night struggling, you will soon be competent to tackle your database thing. But this will be a few months out.
The good news is that the help community here is superb. More good news is that LC is far, far easier to learn and understand than any other language of comparable power. You have already started...
Craig Newman
You must start with a simple project. Along with the lessons, tutorials and the help community, you can learn to program fairly quickly. That said, it takes time and perseverance. Nothing valuable can be learned without this sort of effort, and LC is valuable; it is not a toy. Too many new users assume they will be writing apps in a day. Not so, not at all.
An address book that can find your family members, and sort and print mailing labels to those alone, a calculator or a metric/english conversion gadget, a logbook for recipes or whatever. These tasks are simple in scope, but not so in execution. The test for you will be to find out if you cannot leave certain aspects of these projects alone until they are exactly the way you want them. If you are up late at night struggling, you will soon be competent to tackle your database thing. But this will be a few months out.
The good news is that the help community here is superb. More good news is that LC is far, far easier to learn and understand than any other language of comparable power. You have already started...
Craig Newman
Re: what's a good first project?
Thanks for the great responses!
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Re: what's a good first project?
I have been trying to collect livecode related links here:
http://piratepad.be/p/LiveCode_Resource_Collection
It's a public document, so if you can see it, you can add to it as well.
Hope this helps!
http://piratepad.be/p/LiveCode_Resource_Collection
It's a public document, so if you can see it, you can add to it as well.
Hope this helps!
Re: what's a good first project?
I've been working with LC for about 2 years now off and on....I have no previous coding experience and went to the book store to find help with C and C++ to get me started. In my opinion, LC can be used with a basic knowledge of these languages. With my limited knowledge, I have since to date released 3 applications to the IOS market and they all were pretty basic. (actually, right now 2 are in review!) For me, writing a program within my scope of knowledge was essential so I didn't chuck my computer out the window and give up. Example ( first program was an inventory app for the ambulances where I work). The last two here recently were simple yet fun, and I made them for my daughter to use so there was some good motivation not to give up! One was an alphabetizing program and putting words in order and the other was a times tables math program to get her up to speed with her math skills. I thoroughly enjoyed making these programs for her and get a kick out of watching her use them!
Let your imagination run wild! I do. I think of things all the time and will get up in the middle of the night and test an idea out. I put those little code snippets in a special folder for later use....I love using LC and talk it up to anyone who will listen and not hit me in the head....Good luck and if you get stuck, the GREAT people here on the forum will help where needed....they have been essential in my growth as a amateur developer. I would like to buy each and every one of them a beer!
Let your imagination run wild! I do. I think of things all the time and will get up in the middle of the night and test an idea out. I put those little code snippets in a special folder for later use....I love using LC and talk it up to anyone who will listen and not hit me in the head....Good luck and if you get stuck, the GREAT people here on the forum will help where needed....they have been essential in my growth as a amateur developer. I would like to buy each and every one of them a beer!
Re: what's a good first project?
Thanks Kenny. So far, the LiveCode University series has been great. I'll approach the coding aspect a little more cautiously...