LC MISTAKES

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Nigel,

If you were able to use the original HyperCard, but with the advanced capabilities of Revolution/LiveCode, on today's hardware you cannot imagine how ecstatic you would be doing the same thing. Your learning curve would be a matter of hours, rather than a couple of weeks. Of course we didn't have the Internet or Lists like this to help us, but the early books on H/C, and there were many very good ones, were all one needed. Inside of two weeks, I was already teaching others how to use H/C on Mac SE30s with Mac Users clamoring to get a seat. As always, my motto was: "the best way to learn ANYTHING is to teach it."

So, find a venue where you can teach LiveCode and get paid, nominally of course, to learn it better yourself. Instead of working ON your son's projects, set up a class to teach LiveCode to your son, and have him invite a few of his friends/schoolmates. You'll be surprised at how much you will learn in order to answer their queries. I no longer contribute, but you may wish to check out <http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials> which is still a fabulous resource for Mac Users of all levels. Dig deeply and you'll find a few of my old contributions; even about Revolution in its pre-LiveCode days.

Good luck,

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Nigel Soden wrote:

> But, I'm a fairly new-bee to LC and to date I must say that I look forward to coming home after working in C# .Net (F...$%^&* usless. s....) and working on some projects for my son. The difference between the two is that I know one works while the other pretends to work. :)