I know exactly what you mean about visuals! To understand Director's scripting hierarchy I imagine a little postal worker with a piece of mail running around in a corporation asking if the piece of mail(with a script in it) is for this or that "big muckety-muck". It really helps! Especially when the little guy goes ballistic!
I liked geometry too. Cool tools and you could draw! Chris > From: Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:30:42 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> totally stumped > > On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 18:01 America/Chicago, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Warren, > > Howdy. > >> Just read your sections on lists and OOP from your book. The examples >> you >> used helped it click! > > Well good; I'm glad they could help. I tend to be fairly visual myself, > and while a good technical understanding of lists and logic is > important, it can help to have those things expressed in fairly > concrete real-world examples. > > I'm not sure why but I seemed to grasp symbolic algebra readily, but > bombed at geometry. Go fig. Maybe it was because I couldn't quite make > the abstractions of algebra work, in my head, with the real examples of > shape and form. > > Of course the section on the pizza shop was written as a draft when I > was hungry... ;) > >> You can bet I'm >> going to add your book to my Director library. > > Well, you're certainly welcome to, of course! :D > > > Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] > nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ > Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool > Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/ > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is > for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
