For true beginners

[Sarah]

If I remember back to my early HyperCard days, there were a couple of 
stacks called "Readymade Buttons" and "Readymade Fields" which showed 
how to do a variety of neat things. They were also designed to be 
easily copied & pasted into any other stack. A well commented set of 
useful examples like this would be a good starting point and allow 
beginners to get going with just some copy & paste work rather than 
actual scripting.

Sarah

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 02:15  pm, Ken Norris wrote:

> Hello Bjornke and others,
>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:10:44 +0200
>> Subject: Re: For true beginners
>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rnke_von_Gierke?= <bvg at mac.com>
>
>> How would it be if we made a kind of homestack  with examples and
>> guides, then we present it to the people at RunRev, so they can 
>> include
>> it into their product?
>> I would contribute to that maybe a "HomeStack" yahoo-group could be
>> formed?
> ----------
> I see your idea and raise you a couple more. First, I wasn't thinking 
> of
> actually make an HC Home Stack look-alike (and I don't think you were
> either), but if you mean a stack full of *ready-to-use* samples, 
> buttons,
> fields, graphics, windows, UIs, menus, stack templates, with free 
> access to
> well commented scripts, then yes, absolutely, I like it.
>
> Plus, you could also include a basic instruction set...the kind that 
> assume
> the user hasn't done any real programming before.
>
> This isn't intended to knock Jeanne's wonderful efforts with the docs, 
> but
> rather to introduce an earnest first-timer into the world of 
> programming
> computers, and help them through the birth pangs.
>
> And also, a toggleing player window which acts like a bot that 
> explains the
> basics as it opens itself up to a student, and allows for breaking it 
> down
> into parts. A sort of building block version of, say, an address stack.
> Something simple they can actually *use* immediately, and modify, 
> i.e., make
> more complex, as they go.
>
> You could choose from a list of options that shows the student how to 
> add
> and alter it to taste, too.
>
> Just a few more cents worth.
>
> Ken N.
>
>
>
>
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