[off-topic-ish] do you prefer LC-related content as books or video courses?

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Fri Jul 10 09:20:20 EDT 2020


Mark,

Thanks a lot for your support my friend, I really appreciate it. :-)



On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 11:39, Mark Smith <marksmithhfx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the update Andre, I have the book and am looking forward to
> some good reads 😊
>
> Mark
>
> > On Jul 10, 2020, at 11:14 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your detailed responses. Since you have all been quite
> > awesome in giving me all these great replies and feedback, let me tell
> you,
> > in probably more details than you'd ever want, where I am coming from and
> > what I plan to do going forward.
> >
> > Many here know that I have graduated from a film school. Doing videos
> feel
> > like going home for me and I believe in the potential of multimedia to be
> > an effective learning tool. Still, I have always been in love with books
> > and like many here I favour books over video any time. I was considering
> > doing more video related content because other people I know are having a
> > better return on video courses than on books. Of course this depends on
> the
> > community and here books appear to rule, which is good for me because I
> > enjoy writing books and that is the direction I want to shift my career
> to
> > anyway.
> >
> > I have just completed a major JavaScript book for a famous publishing
> house
> > in the U.S. and am ready to go back to self-publishing and work on my own
> > titles on my own time. The book I made about LiveCode best practices and
> > code organisation was well received and even though I have issued some
> > updates, I haven't updated as often as I wanted to. The reason behind not
> > updating often is because of some of the worst aspects of capitalism:
> > updating the book didn't really add to the sales figures and I live in a
> > very expensive city (I live in London now). Every time I updated the book
> > there would be some extra sales, but not as many as to justify working on
> > it. The alternative would be to raise the prices so that each sale would
> be
> > more valuable to me but I'm against it because I think the price should
> > reflect the value of the object being sold. That book has been done
> without
> > an editor and in a hurry, I can't charge as much for it as I'd charge
> for a
> > book that involved more professionals and more care. I think the price
> for
> > that specific book is right.
> >
> > So, going forward I think I am going to write more books but also shorter
> > books. There is a problem with trying to create comprehensive references
> or
> > bible-like books. They are harder to do and you sell them only once. Our
> > community is small, there is a limited amount of sales to be done inside
> > it. What I will do is create shorter books focused on a single topic and
> > sell them individually for a low price so that people can acquire them
> all
> > without actually having to worry. This way I can produce books faster
> > (which lowers the cost of producing them for me) and you get to have
> fresh
> > content, which is something that we all know a healthy ecosystem needs. I
> > might make some short videos, but mostly for engagement and highlighting
> > cool stuff. Video takes longer to produce and unfortunately my current
> > daily driver machine doesn't support any decent video editor.
> >
> > As for using stacks as interactive learning material, that reminds me of
> > Director. I think it is a great idea. The problem is that I am writing
> > about other technologies as well and I can't build a pipeline and tools
> to
> > deliver stacks (even as standalones) to the other communities at the
> > moment. I might explore that in the future but for now doing ebooks is
> the
> > best way forward. It is easy, I know how to do it, and I can focus on
> doing
> > content instead of building new tools.
> >
> > For those that haven't been exposed to my best practices book, you can
> find
> > it at:
> >
> >
> http://andregarzia.com/books/livecode-advanced-application-architecture.html
> >
> > I have also created a Ko-fi. This is a website like Patreon that helps
> > connect audiences with creators by allowing people to donate money as a
> one
> > time donation or as a recurring donation depending on how much they want
> to
> > support the creator. My plan is to engage with those supporting me on
> > ko-fi, and let them see advanced copies of the books, help decide what
> the
> > next topics to tackle and so on. Another thing I like about ko-fi is that
> > they style the whole process as "buy me a coffee", so you're basically
> > sending creator small donations so they can afford caffeine. Something I
> > really need to write books. I will price the books low, so if you think
> > about sending more money or making this more sustainable, my Ko-fi is at:
> >
> > https://ko-fi.com/andregarzia
> >
> > From what I have been reading on the list, I think there is a need for a
> > small book on "launchers" or as we used to call them "splash stacks".
> They
> > are a fantastic way to deploy tools to the enterprise and clients, they
> > unite the easy deployability of the web with the powerful feature set of
> > Desktop apps. More seasoned LC developers, especially those that worked
> as
> > ISV before the App Store, are probably familiar with them but this is
> > probably a new subject to many of the people who came to LC more
> recently.
> > I think this is will be the first new small book. I'm thinking about 45
> > pages. I hope you'll like it.
> >
> > Best
> > A
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 20:20, William Prothero via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> FYI, I’ve found some of the MovAvi <https://www.movavi.com/mac.html>
> apps
> >> to be good and very inexpensive. That said, I’m not doing a lot of video
> >> editing these days, but found the video editing app to be easier to use
> >> than iMovie. I used Final Cut Pro, but didn’t renew when Apple went to
> >> 64bit only.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> William A. Prothero
> >> https://earthlearningsolutions.org
> >>
> >>> On Jul 8, 2020, at 11:13 AM, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode <
> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I prefer video, but I feel demonstrations should have some production
> >> value
> >>> other that just a screen share.
> >>> Indicators, motion graphics, etc and not just a guy and his desktop.
> And
> >>> EDITING!!!
> >>> I'm a Final Cut Pro video guy these days and have ALL the groovy
> plugins
> >>> so I'm not being fair I guess.
> >>>
> >>> iMovie is far better these days that it used to be, but strangely very
> >>> difficult to upgrade an iMovie package to Final Cut, once one is there.
> >>> Roadblocks everywhere. Typical Apple %$#%#%#$%#$.
> >>>
> >>> sqb
> >>> --
> >>> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
> >>> mixstream.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 10:36 AM Jim Lambert via use-livecode <
> >>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi André,
> >>>>
> >>>> I previously always favored printed books.
> >>>>
> >>>> But now I prefer digital materials that are a combination of text
> (with
> >>>> copiable code!), interactive elements, and supplementary video.
> >>>> As Richard pointed out LC itself provides "the many learning benefits
> of
> >>>> direct engagement with interactive media.”
> >>>>
> >>>> IMO, Video is most appropriate when used to convey visual, spatial and
> >>>> temporal examples. It’s can also provide a bit of a human touch to the
> >>>> instruction, even though it’s utterly mechanical.
> >>>>
> >>>> So, yeah, I like a combo.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hope this helps!
> >>>>
> >>>> Jim Lambert
> >>>>
> >>>>
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