breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

[Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel]

Just preordered my copy as well.... Can't wait!

On Sunday, July 22, 2012, Colin Holgate wrote:

> I wouldn't go so far as to say I did "best practices"! Björnke can tell
> you (he's one of the two reviewers, Andreas being the other) that I did a
> few things in a way that wasn't how he would have done them!
>
> For much of the book, where it's talking about installing SDKs and the
> like, there are not really any alternate ways of doing things. For the
> LiveCode though, I did some things in a way that would be easiest for a
> beginner to follow. As an example I may well have used "repeat with" when a
> best practicing LiveCoder would use "repeat for each", because I was
> illustrating something else at the time, and didn't want to get into
> explaining why "repeat for each" would be a favored way to do the same
> thing.
>
> Both reviewers made comments about code things, and where possible I
> adjusted it in a way that would still be easy enough to follow, but that
> would answer their criticism. I'm quite sure there will still be a bunch of
> things in there that are dubious, and I'm looking forward to some lengthy
> debates here in the future!
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Keith Clarke <
> keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > >I need some kind of best practice 'straight and narrow' path, amidst
> all the brilliant, creative but divergent '100 ways to roll your own' ideas
> that seem to fill the LiveCode universe.
>
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