Seeking Mentor or Getting Started Tips

[kespears]

Hi, I'm new to LiveCode. I want to dive into learning this platform. Anyone have tips on getting up to speed in a healthy, well rounded manner? While I have ideas of Apps to develop on multiple platform, I don't want to get too deep, until I learn how to swim. I welcome your suggestions and any mentors will to provide some guidance.

Thanks
Keith Spears

[bogs]

Here is a series of steps that start you off in easy to understand lessons and in a fairly logical manner -
http://www.live-code.net/livecode-tutorial.html

If I had known about it, I probably would have started there first.

Cyril also had a series of tutorials that break down the learning into easy chunks which you can find here. If you scroll down a bit when hitting that page, you'll see the place to start learning, but the information above it is well worth reading as well.
This page is put together as a handy reference of most of the language you would use as a beginner as well, kind of a handy cheat sheet

[kespears]

Bogs,

Thank you so much for the helpful links. I will dive in.

Keith

[bogs]

Good to hear Keith, in all the years I spent learning different languages, doing lots of little stuff just to practice language x is what ingrained it the most for me.

If you get stuck, don't be afraid to post a question here, there are many who know and will answer almost anything you can get stuck with

[FourthWorld]

Hi, I'm new to LiveCode. I want to dive into learning this platform. Anyone have tips on getting up to speed in a healthy, well rounded manner?

How much of the User Guide included with the LiveCode install have you read?

[bogs]

The user guide (under the 'Help' menu) has been vastly improved over previous editions, and I should have mentioned it myself. Unfortunately, not using the editions of the IDE which have it, I often forget that it has been improved as much as it has.

My bad

[richmond62]

You don't need a mentor; because here on the forums you have hundreds of mentors who
are lovely people (well, most of them) who are more than happy to help you with
anything.

[kespears]

FourthWorld, I'm starting to read through the users guide. Thank you.
Richmond62, thanks for reminding me this forum has an abundance of mentors.
Bogs, thanks for pointing me to the Help menu as well.

Question: I'm working through Lesson #3 "A Complete App: Digital Birday Card" at the Live-code.net site. I'm using Livecode 9.5 and the part where is instructs me to the Birthday App (see attached screen image), nothing seems to happen, and I cannot view "Go First", "Go Prev", etc.

Any thoughts?
Thanks Keith

[bogs]

Your actually in the Object menu, where you create the "New Card", but if you look a little farther down, the directions say to go to the "View" menu, then "Go first/last/etc" to navigate.

Blink!

[dunbarx]

As others have said, do not be afraid to carry on virtually continuous conversations on this forum. We usually race each other to answer first.

Craig

[Klaus]

Hi Keith,

a very good start to get the basics of LC:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revscriptc ... ences.html


Best

Klaus

[richmond62]

If all those other resources seem too sane and sensible you
can take a walk on the wild side:

https://www.facebook.com/RMLCclasses/

[FourthWorld]

FourthWorld, I'm starting to read through the users guide. Thank you.

You're quite welcome. Like any rich, expressive language, no single book can cover everything. And like learning anything else in life, books alone are just orientation, augmented with practice.

But as books go, the Language Guide is a good starting point. It's too comprehensive to expect anyone to read all of it before diving in, but the early chapters in syntax basics and working with objects will provide a great foundation to build your knowledge from.

The rest can be lightly skimmed for now, just so you're familiar with what's available. Later, as you have topic-specific questions, you'll know which chapters to refer to for getting started with those.

And of course you have these forums. Like any other healthy community, ours has vast supplemental resources across the web. Being comfortable in the good company you find here will often answer your questions directly, or point you to specific resources as needed.

Welcome aboard. I think you're about to have a very good time.

[kespears]

Thanks for the kind words and welcoming a newbie. I'm committed and will walk through the user guide as reference and practice, practice, practice.

You all have already been a great help and motivation for me. I did get the Happy Birthday app working, but can't the the first image to show. Everything else is working. Kinda stuck. Thoughts?

[kespears]

I figured it out! The image I was using was not good. Maybe the name or extension, but when I changed the first image it worked. Thanks All.