Best Practices in Rev development

[Jerry Daniels]

Thanks, Devin, for the honorable mention!

Best,

Jerry Daniels

Makers of Galaxy
http://www.daniels-mara.com



On Jun 19, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Devin Asay wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> During the summer I have time to rethink some of the materials in  
> my beginning programming course. For those of you not familiar with  
> it (probably most of you) this course is part of a larger  
> curriculum for teaching applied computing skills to non-techies-- 
> our Computers and the Humanities minor. ("CHum" for short. Just the  
> kind of warm fuzzy titles we humanists love. ;-) )
>
> One of the things I introduced last Fall was a list of "Best  
> Practices" for beginning Revolution developers. It was inspired in  
> part by an excellent presentation by Jerry Daniels at RevCon 06.  
> Other parts are based on lessons learned over my years of HyperCard  
> and Revolution development. I'm interested in your reaction to  
> these recommendations. I keep in mind the following caveats:
>
> - This is aimed at beginning, never-tried-to-program-before-in-my- 
> life-type students, so it's an attempt to introduce some discipline  
> into the layout and coding process.
> - Coding practices tend to be intensely tied to personal habit and  
> preference, so I know not everyone will agree with all of these.
> - I intentionally left out detailed rules for variable naming and  
> variable typing. That's more of a semester two topic in my mind.
> - I want this to be a sort of "top 10" rules of thumb.
>
> The list is at <http://revolution.byu.edu/design/bestpractices.html>
>
> I'm interested in anyone's thoughts about them.
>
> Are they helpful?
> Could some of them inadvertently cause problems down the road?
> Have I left something important out?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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