Calling all teachers and parents

[Peter W A Wood]

Hi Kay C

I quickly put the blog together with the specific purpose of showing people who haven't heard of LiveCode, Revolution, MetaCard or HyperCard things that they might be able to do with LiveCode. So that they could see that LiveCode could be useful to them. Something to interest those non-programmers who heard about the Kickstarter campaign.

A lot of the stuff people sent was much more sophisticated than I had intended but it looks good and I needed to get a decent number of entries quickly. I feel that the mixed nature of the blog makes it a good showcase for LiveCode but didn't really meet my goal for it.

Also, it has proved impossible for me to generate the level of visits that were needed to make a huge impact on the Kickstarter campaign.

I don't regret starting the blog for a minute and as time allows I will continue to pester people for more entries and post them (though I feel I should be more selective.)

I do plan to label (tag) entries when time allows but I will continue to use blogger.com as I just don't have the time available to create something unique (well not in the foreseeable future).

Peter
 
On 25 Feb 2013, at 14:36, Kay C Lan wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> Really like what you are doing with your 1001 page and hope you exceed that
> number, but even at it's present level you need to think about a more
> sophisticated level of presentation.
> 
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Peter W A Wood <peterwawood at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Other youngsters would be likely to relate better to examples from their
> peers.
> 
> Couldn't agree more; and that doesn't apply just to youngsters, pro coders
> need to see what pro coders are doing, otherwise if they come and see your
> top chronological entries are from a bunch of kids, they may very quickly
> (and wrongly) assume that LC is a toy language for students.
> 
> You probably don't have the time to do anything else now, and the blog
> format is so simple and quick to do, but when you do have the time you
> might consider the following:
> 
> I'd break your page up into at least 3 sub-pages - Advanced, Intermediate,
> Beginner (maybe Commercial, Hobbyist, Education - others on this List will
> probably have even better suggestions)
> 
> From there I'd look at some kind of single level Tag or Filtering system
> based on purpose - Finance, Game, Medical,... Utility (basically similar to
> the iApp category list).
> 
> And whilst the iron is hot, maybe even a second level of Tag/Filtering
> covering basic statistics about the size of the project, how long it took
> and current status. i.e. 6 main stacks, 38 sub stacks, 49 cards, 1,340,765
> lines of code, 7 years, On Going; 1 main stack, 0 sub stacks, 1 card, 53
> lines of code, < 30 min, Finished. ( I personally feel that his kind of
> info might really open the eyes to how quick a solution can be developed in
> LC)
> 
> I'm sure others will have even better ideas on how to differentiate the
> vast assortment of projects people of different skill levels are tackling
> with LC, so that those that visit your page are not distracted but can
> focus on those people/projects that really interest them.
> 
> Having said all that, I would include a 'Browse Eveything" page, just as
> you already have - but with the Tags so skimming the list would be easier.
> 
> I can't help but think a page hosted on on-rev, written in LC could do it
> all; and wouldn't it be nice to have "This page powered by LiveCode"
> blazoned across it :-)
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