Call for Tutorial Topics

[Dan Shafer]

I agree, Sarah. This is part of the deep need to re-do the 
out-of-the-box experience IF RunRev wants to go after the newbie  
market. And they do seem to wish to do that.


On Jul 8, 2004, at 7:17 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> HyperCard came with a bunch of starter stacks accessible through the 
> Home stack. The most interesting for me as a newbie were in the "Stack 
> kit" section, especially "Stack templates", "Readymade buttons", 
> "Readymade fields" and even "Background art". This meant that with 
> only copy & paste, I could quickly build a functional stack.
>
> After that, I started editing the scripts to make the stacks more the 
> way I wanted them, but it is always easier to start by modifying 
> rather than by creating from scratch.
>
> I think this has been suggested before, but for my money, a "Stack 
> kit" with plenty of well commented examples, would be a great way to 
> introduce newbies to Revolution.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
> On 8 Jul 2004, at 2:21 pm, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> As a result of a long and intriguing thread about Rev docs, I have 
>> decided to step up and offer to do (or assist others in doing and 
>> editing) a bunch of Revolution/Transcript step-by-step tutorials as a 
>> contribution to the community from which I have drawn so much.
>>
>> Now it's your turn. Please respond to this topic ONLY with your 
>> (prioritized if possible) list of topics you feel are important to 
>> your needs and not covered by How To's or recipes in the current 
>> documentation. After a suitable period has passed and we've gathered 
>> enough votes, I'll suggest a list of topics to be tackled, more or 
>> less in order.
>>
>> If you have partially finished tutorials or stacks that would lend 
>> themselves to tutorials but your lack of writing experience or time 
>> prevents you from fashioning step-by-steps out of them, let me know 
>> that (here or via private email to revdan at danshafer.com) and I'll 
>> take a look and see if I can help you polish them.
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
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