Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Dave Kilroy]

Thank you all for your ideas, questions and suggestions

First of all, as regards who will be coming to the workshop - basically I’ll 
take anyone with a pulse (might even take the undead…). 

Therefore I have to cater for a wide range of capabilities. Maybe in the future 
when I have more of an established audience/group here I can do stuff more 
tailored to what they need but as of now I need to cater for as wide an 
audience as possible (hence my email to the usegroup)

That said, from other workshops I’ve done here I think I’ll have two main types 
- those who are completely new to coding and those who are proficient in other 
languages and want to give LiveCode a whirl…

It sounds like between us all LiveCoders we have a long list of training we 
would like to receive ourselves, if I have time I’ll set up a Facebook survey 
thingy to see what the most popular workshop topics might be - and from there 
we could see what ways we would have to addressing that need.

So as to my workshop on September 17th, I think I’m gravitating towards the fun 
‘scribbling-on-photos-of-your-friends’ app idea - I know how to do a basic 
version of scribbling on mobile and if others were to donate more advanced 
graphic-effect snippets (I’m looking at you John) that would be lovely to keep 
my more advanced participants happy

Kind regards

Dave

PS: Come to Plymouth on September 17th for a fun day with LiveCode! 
http://www.meetup.com/The-THINQTANQ-Events-Meetups-and-More-in-Plymouth/events/226749341/
 

PPS: the £10 charge goes to the venue and not to me...


> Ditto what Graham said: 
> 
> We semi-proficient coders hit the wall when we create a scrolling group on 
> desktop and then transfer to our iPhone and it doesn't scroll or set a simple 
> player to a URL for an mp3 on web server and discover that you need a to 
> create a mobile player. What if you have content (a little puzzle game) that 
> really should only be viewed/locked down in landscape?  and this is on card 3 
> of a stack that is otherwise portrait? on desktop it’s a 4-line-of-code 
> simple resize trick. "Wow Livecode is so cool" newbie feels proud they 
> figured that out. Not so on mobile. For the level of workshop you are 
> targeting perhaps (my guess) this would probably be an "advanced track" .. 
> these are the things that someone Javascript person watching over your 
> shoulder says "really, why don't you do this all in HTML 5?"  because it like 
> its  s hard (in livecode) and the html5 world has thousands of answers…" 
> [I'm not buying it yet. I've seen some of these html5 apps with their snake 
> pit of libraries and dependencies and 5 times the lines of code in the end 
> and the endless javascript debugging of what doesn't-quite-work-right yet… 
> until the code becomes so opaque that even the developer himself can hardly 
> read it 6 months later. Give me LC any day… but some things are stil too hard 
> in LC.] 
> 
> And, yes: iOS provisioning, Android developer ID et al: a dark grey mountain 
> of mystery that needs sunlight for the newbie. after a year.. I *think* have 
> iOS pretty much figured… but still putting off building for android locally. 
> Challenge is, non-professionals are no doing this day-in-day-out so we really 
> depend on thorough documentation and examples, that is missing in manby cases 
> or out of date (Livecode lessons are pretty good for some things, but not 
> all) 
> 
> So your work shop can include supplementary material on "where to find what 
> you need to know; disclaimer, everything you need to know may or many not be 
> there." 
> 
> BR 
> 
> 
>> Graham Samuel" <[hidden email] 
>> 
>>  on behalf of [hidden email] 
>> >
>>  wrote: 
>> 
>> so I’d like to see a workshop that creates a trivial app (say a 
>> variation on the clock/stopwatch theme - but it could be anything), 
>> discusses the differences (if any) needed in the code for different 
>> platforms, and which is then actually installed on all the available 
>> platforms, indicating all the pitfalls of deploying on iOS, Android, Mac, 
>> Windows, Linux - what installer software to use, getting stuff 
>> approved/certificated etc. and including a jargon-buster for the deployment 
>> end of things ("what’s device provisioning?" for example). 
>> 
>>> On 4 Aug 2016, at 23:50, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions!
>>> 
>>> I’m summarising them as follows:
>>> A drag and drop matching game. 
>>> A to-do list app. 
>>> A simple e-reader app. 
>>> A walking tour app with a map that you can click for additional information 
>>> and photos. 
>>> An app that helps with web research (grab text and images, write notes & 
>>> 

Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami]

Ditto what Graham said:

We semi-proficient coders hit the wall when we create a scrolling group on 
desktop and then transfer to our iPhone and it doesn't scroll or set a simple 
player to a URL for an mp3 on web server and discover that you need a to create 
a mobile player. What if you have content (a little puzzle game) that really 
should only be viewed/locked down in landscape?  and this is on card 3 of a 
stack that is otherwise portrait? on desktop it’s a 4-line-of-code simple 
resize trick. "Wow Livecode is so cool" newbie feels proud they figured that 
out. Not so on mobile. For the level of workshop you are targeting perhaps (my 
guess) this would probably be an "advanced track" .. these are the things that 
someone Javascript person watching over your shoulder says "really, why don't 
you do this all in HTML 5?"  because it like its  s hard (in livecode) and 
the html5 world has thousands of answers…" [I'm not buying it yet. I've seen 
some of these html5 apps with their snake pit of libraries and dependencies and 
5 times the lines of code in the end and the endless javascript debugging of 
what doesn't-quite-work-right yet… until the code becomes so opaque that even 
the developer himself can hardly read it 6 months later. Give me LC any day… 
but some things are stil too hard in LC.]

And, yes: iOS provisioning, Android developer ID et al: a dark grey mountain of 
mystery that needs sunlight for the newbie. after a year.. I *think* have iOS 
pretty much figured… but still putting off building for android locally. 
Challenge is, non-professionals are no doing this day-in-day-out so we really 
depend on thorough documentation and examples, that is missing in manby cases 
or out of date (Livecode lessons are pretty good for some things, but not all)

So your work shop can include supplementary material on "where to find what you 
need to know; disclaimer, everything you need to know may or many not be there."

BR


Graham Samuel"  wrote:

so I’d like to see a workshop that creates a trivial app (say a variation 
on the clock/stopwatch theme - but it could be anything), discusses the 
differences (if any) needed in the code for different platforms, and which is 
then actually installed on all the available platforms, indicating all the 
pitfalls of deploying on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux - what installer 
software to use, getting stuff approved/certificated etc. and including a 
jargon-buster for the deployment end of things ("what’s device provisioning?" 
for example).



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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Graham Samuel]

Dave, for me and I would guess a lot of others who aren’t so bad at coding in 
LC, **deployment** on the chosen platforms is the BIG show-stopper; so I’d like 
to see a workshop that creates a trivial app (say a variation on the 
clock/stopwatch theme - but it could be anything), discusses the differences 
(if any) needed in the code for different platforms, and which is then actually 
installed on all the available platforms, indicating all the pitfalls of 
deploying on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux - what installer software to 
use, getting stuff approved/certificated etc. and including a jargon-buster for 
the deployment end of things ("what’s device provisioning?" for example).

Just my two eurocents, or Brexit pence. (Will the Scots keep GBP if they break 
away?)

Graham

> On 4 Aug 2016, at 23:50, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
> 
> Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions!
> 
> I’m summarising them as follows:
> A drag and drop matching game. 
> A to-do list app. 
> A simple e-reader app. 
> A walking tour app with a map that you can click for additional information 
> and photos. 
> An app that helps with web research (grab text and images, write notes & 
> emails, filter and ordering).
> A client-server user registration system. 
> A bare bones personal cloud type thing with clients for every platform.
> Go through all past conferences and look at the different track subject 
> matter. 
> Try to solicit other to be presenters.   
> Focus on UI/UX - everything must look 2016 rather than 1995
> 
> I’ve also remembered a suggestion I once got from a teacher for a workshop 
> topic "A humorous photo editor (draw moustaches etc on photos of your 
> friends)"
> 
> 
> MESSAGING APP
> 
> @rjd318 this is a link to a thread on the forum from a year ago covering the 
> workshop where we did the messaging app (including an introductory video and 
> download link to get the stack and .lc script) 
> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8=24465 
> . Since then I ran 
> another version of this workshop in a different environment and I added some 
> more polish to the app - let me know if what I did was of interest and I’ll 
> dig out the newer version for you. 
> 
> Got any more ideas? Keep ‘em coming!
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
>> On 4 Aug 2016, at 09:54, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
>> 
>> This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshops
>> 
>> That is, where one of us is organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and 
>> are looking for a main topic for the day.
>> 
>> I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that would 
>> be nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can say 
>> to people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will build 
>> …” or “at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. 
>> 
>> In the past I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:
>> - build a mobile messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql 
>> database)
>> - build desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, 
>> using the clipboard etc)
>> - learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCode
>> 
>> I think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:
>> -  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want lots of people to turn up!), something like 
>> “learn now to connect to the Pokemon Go! API”
>> - doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for the workshop
>> - can give a positive experience to participants with differing levels of 
>> ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for those 
>> who need them) 
>> 
>> So, ideas and suggestions please!
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> PS: my next workshop is on 17th September and I haven’t decided what to go 
>> in it 
>> http://www.meetup.com/The-THINQTANQ-Events-Meetups-and-More-in-Plymouth/events/226749341/
>>  
>> 
>> PPS: ask potential participants what the workshop topic should be usually 
>> doesn’t help much!
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Kay C Lan]

Dave,

the first question is what is your aim? Is it to show people how to
program in LC or is it to hilight how LC can help them?

If it is the former, then most of the suggestions given will fit the
bill perfectly; they are just examples of something already done, but
you show them how to do it in LC.

If it is the later, then you need to know your audience and ask them
the question, what is it that you want your computer to do that it
doesn't do for you now. What frustrates you about your computer, or
some program that you know should be smart enough to do it itself but
it just doesn't do it. People say the LC, just like HC before it, is a
strange beast to describe, and whilst that may be true for what LC
'is', it's not the case for what LC does or can do. I'm sure everyone
here, if someone asked "can you do X, Y and/or Z with LC", would be
able to respond with how to build a solution with LC.

If I attended a workshop that showed me how to build a database, to do
list, or e-reader, I wouldn't be engaged because I'd be spending the
whole time wondering why I just didn't use the one already on my
computer - (assuming I'm not there specifically to learn how to do
this in LC language). On the other hand, if the instructions relates
to a real life problem, even if it's not my problem, and I can't find
the answer on the App Store, then I'm engaged and interested in how
the problem is solved.

When you ask people what they'd really like their computer to do,
everyone can think of something and it will usually fall within 3
categories:
1) An app or utility that doesn't exist
2) The automation of a manual process, and closely related
3) The communication between disparate systems

If you are dealing with the younger generation then it will likely
centre around games or social media. Back when my boys were young and
I was still using HC, Warhammers were the big thing. Like Dungeon's
and Dragons, the rules are vast and complex. and every army had it's
own book of rules. Those books were expensive, constantly in use,
being abused and occasionally lost. I was surprised there was no
electronic rule book, so I helped my boys build one, which not only
sped up game play but removed 'accidental' misreading of lines about
whose man was stronger.

For adults it may be hobby or past time related;  I enjoy cycling. My
Garmin GPS bicycle computer records a massive amount of data,
including speed, cadence and elevation. What it doesn't tell me is
what gear I'm in *. But given the gear ratios, and working with speed
and cadence it's possible to figure it out. So I built a utility that
would extract the data, compare it to the gear ratios, and therefore
extrapolate which gear I was in; thereby help performance analysis.

* with the new electronic bike shifters, and latest generation Bike
Computers, this information is now recorded - I was ahead of the times
in recognising the need to know 'which gear' in determining optimum
performance;-)

At work the problem is likely to be 'automated' related. I'm
constantly fed pdf reports which are great for reading but useless for
extracting information and comparing with previous reports. I have a
script which contacts our work server, gets the latest batch of
reports, which I feed to an AppleScript to turn them into text, which
I then parse into data fields that are fed into a DB. My stack
automatically looks for data points which are outliers as well as
points that I personally set as triggers.

As for communicating with disparate systems I recall someone on the
List recently wanting to extract electoral result information off the
net. Each year I'm involved a team of about 60 people who take 4 karts
to a 24hr Human Powered Vehicle competition. The karts are fitted with
transponders and the events timing is done by TSL Timing Solutions
Limited, which mainly does motor vehicle racing. TSL transmits the
data to the web. For years we'd been doing manually timing, so we
could analyse every pedalers performance. Understandably a manual stop
watch is not as accurate as an electronic transponder and mistakes
were common. This is a job for LC; a webpage scraper, parse out each
of our Team karts data, and all our timers have to do is manually
enter the pedalers name at each pit stop. Easy.

I'm sure everyone here can think of dozens of example of little dirty
apps they've built because you 'just can' with LC.

If you are trying to promote LC, not just programming, then I'd
recommend, if it's at all possible beforehand, to glean from your
audience a particular problem to solve, and then show them how LC is
the perfect choice in solving the 'individual's problem'.

What is LC... it's the answer, you just need to determine the problem.

My 2 shekels worth

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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Dave Kilroy]

Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions!

I’m summarising them as follows:
A drag and drop matching game. 
A to-do list app. 
A simple e-reader app. 
A walking tour app with a map that you can click for additional information and 
photos. 
An app that helps with web research (grab text and images, write notes & 
emails, filter and ordering).
A client-server user registration system. 
A bare bones personal cloud type thing with clients for every platform.
Go through all past conferences and look at the different track subject matter. 
Try to solicit other to be presenters.   
Focus on UI/UX - everything must look 2016 rather than 1995

I’ve also remembered a suggestion I once got from a teacher for a workshop 
topic "A humorous photo editor (draw moustaches etc on photos of your friends)"


MESSAGING APP

@rjd318 this is a link to a thread on the forum from a year ago covering the 
workshop where we did the messaging app (including an introductory video and 
download link to get the stack and .lc script) 
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8=24465 
. Since then I ran 
another version of this workshop in a different environment and I added some 
more polish to the app - let me know if what I did was of interest and I’ll dig 
out the newer version for you. 

Got any more ideas? Keep ‘em coming!

Kind regards

Dave



> On 4 Aug 2016, at 09:54, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
> 
> This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshops
> 
> That is, where one of us is organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and 
> are looking for a main topic for the day.
> 
> I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that would 
> be nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can say 
> to people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will build 
> …” or “at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. 
> 
> In the past I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:
> - build a mobile messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql 
> database)
> - build desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, 
> using the clipboard etc)
> - learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCode
> 
> I think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:
> -  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want lots of people to turn up!), something like 
> “learn now to connect to the Pokemon Go! API”
> - doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for the workshop
> - can give a positive experience to participants with differing levels of 
> ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for those 
> who need them) 
> 
> So, ideas and suggestions please!
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS: my next workshop is on 17th September and I haven’t decided what to go in 
> it 
> http://www.meetup.com/The-THINQTANQ-Events-Meetups-and-More-in-Plymouth/events/226749341/
>  
> 
> PPS: ask potential participants what the workshop topic should be usually 
> doesn’t help much!
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami]

1) consider a way to do these on line… possibly shorter (I'm in Hawaii 
so…..attendance is limited)

2) go thru all past conferences and look at the different track subject matter: 
These were well thought out and could serve as a theme for a number of work 
shops.

3) try to solicit other to be presenters with the understanding that even a 
"newbie" could be a presenter. i.e. the presenter's job is also just to "kick 
off" the workshop… so the newbie presenter picks the subject and say "OK here's 
what I'm trying to do in Livecode today, and given my very little experience 
here are the methods I'm using… what do you think."  

4) Focus on UI/UX  so that you can position Livecode as a tool that can meet 
modern design requirements/expectations i.e. everything that the users actually 
sees and interacts with must look 2016 and not 1995. HOW TO: 
   -- handling type
   -- images on screen
   -- gradients, backgrounds
   -- simple animation (parallax, kenburn movement in the background)
   -- color
   -- buttons, icons

 

On 8/3/16, 10:54 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Dave Kilroy" 
 wrote:


So, ideas and suggestions please!

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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Matt Maier]

hostm.com has a tutorial with a desktop stack and server scripts that
allows you to add users to a database on the server from the desktop using
HTTPS.

It would be neat to have a generic "track stuff" app in Livecode that's got
all the if-then's and libraries and whatnot to be compiled and work on
every platform. That way people could just expand on the "stuff to track"
part because the rest of it already works. Sort of a bare bones personal
cloud type thing with clients for every platform. Getting the platforms to
talk to each other is esoteric.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Richard Gaskin 
wrote:

> How about a client-server user registration system?
>
> Everyone needs one, and in addition to being widely useful it would
> demonstrate making HTTPS calls from LC clients, server-side DB use, and
> other things that play an ever more pervasive role in our increasingly
> cloud-driven world.
>
> --
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>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Earthednet-wp]

An app that interacts with the cloud and/or web services would be of great 
interest to me.
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Aug 4, 2016, at 8:04 AM, Richard Gaskin  wrote:
> 
> How about a client-server user registration system?
> 
> Everyone needs one, and in addition to being widely useful it would 
> demonstrate making HTTPS calls from LC clients, server-side DB use, and other 
> things that play an ever more pervasive role in our increasingly cloud-driven 
> world.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
> 
> ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Richard Gaskin]

How about a client-server user registration system?

Everyone needs one, and in addition to being widely useful it would 
demonstrate making HTTPS calls from LC clients, server-side DB use, and 
other things that play an ever more pervasive role in our increasingly 
cloud-driven world.


--
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Richard Gaskin]

Robert Mann wrote:
> or is filemaker simpler to set and use than livecode?? ah ah!!

I would certainly hope so.

FileMaker is a wonderful tool, but is designed to deliver one category 
of application, a database.


LiveCode is a far more flexible tool designed to deliver thousands of 
categories of applications.


If FileMaker were as flexible as LC, it would have to be as complex.

But thankfully for their happy users they've focused on just one task, 
and they do it well.


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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Dave, 

A simple one might be on how to use the new dictionary interface
to find anything one might be looking for.  ;-)

Hope that helps!

Rick

 
> On Aug 4, 2016, at 4:54 AM, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
> 
> This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshops
> 
> That is, where one of us is organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and 
> are looking for a main topic for the day.
> 
> I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that would 
> be nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can say 
> to people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will build 
> …” or “at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. 
> 
> In the past I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:
> - build a mobile messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql 
> database)
> - build desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, 
> using the clipboard etc)
> - learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCode
> 
> I think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:
> -  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want lots of people to turn up!), something like 
> “learn now to connect to the Pokemon Go! API”
> - doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for the workshop
> - can give a positive experience to participants with differing levels of 
> ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for those 
> who need them) 
> 
> So, ideas and suggestions please!
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS: my next workshop is on 17th September and I haven’t decided what to go in 
> it 
> http://www.meetup.com/The-THINQTANQ-Events-Meetups-and-More-in-Plymouth/events/226749341/
>  
> 
> PPS: ask potential participants what the workshop topic should be usually 
> doesn’t help much!
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[dunbarx]

Hi.


It sounds like the workshops are intermediate-level and above, for those with 
considerable experience with LC already.  True?


Craig Newman





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Sent: Thu, Aug 4, 2016 4:55 am
Subject: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshopsThat is, where one of us is 
organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and are looking for a main topic for 
the day.I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that 
would be nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can 
say to people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will 
build …” or “at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. In the past 
I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:- build a mobile 
messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql database)- build 
desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, using the 
clipboard etc)- learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCodeI 
think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:-  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want 
lots of people to turn up!), something like “learn now to connect to the 
Pokemon Go! API”- doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for 
the workshop- can give a positive experience to participants with differing 
levels of ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for 
those who need them) So, ideas and suggestions please!Kind regardsDavePS: my 
next workshop is on 17th September and I haven’t decided what to go in it 
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Robert Mann]

How about something really down to earth? 

>> a simple database, like filemaker, that help dealing with day to day web
>> research :

• grab web pages picture and the link, 
• allow to write notes & emails
• and basic search & ordering functions.

or is filemaker simpler to set and use than livecode?? ah ah!!





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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[rjd318]

Yikes! My eyes widened when I saw that you did a workshop previously on a 
messaging app utilizing a web service and MySQL since that is what I woke up 
this morning thinking about learning how to do    Do you have the materials or 
stacks available for us to look at?

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> On Aug 4, 2016, at 3:54 AM, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
> 
> This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshops
> 
> That is, where one of us is organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and 
> are looking for a main topic for the day.
> 
> I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that would 
> be nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can say 
> to people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will build 
> …” or “at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. 
> 
> In the past I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:
> - build a mobile messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql 
> database)
> - build desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, 
> using the clipboard etc)
> - learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCode
> 
> I think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:
> -  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want lots of people to turn up!), something like 
> “learn now to connect to the Pokemon Go! API”
> - doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for the workshop
> - can give a positive experience to participants with differing levels of 
> ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for those 
> who need them) 
> 
> So, ideas and suggestions please!
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS: my next workshop is on 17th September and I haven’t decided what to go in 
> it 
> http://www.meetup.com/The-THINQTANQ-Events-Meetups-and-More-in-Plymouth/events/226749341/
>  
> 
> PPS: ask potential participants what the workshop topic should be usually 
> doesn’t help much!
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Devin Asay]

If you can remind me of when I did that I can try to find the materials. ;-)

> On Aug 4, 2016, at 5:21 AM, rjd318  wrote:
> 
> Yikes! My eyes widened when I saw that you did a workshop previously on a 
> messaging app utilizing a web service and MySQL since that is what I woke up 
> this morning thinking about learning how to do    Do you have the materials 
> or stacks available for us to look at?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2016, at 3:54 AM, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
>> 
>> This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshops
>> 
>> That is, where one of us is organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and 
>> are looking for a main topic for the day.
>> 
>> I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that would 
>> be nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can say 
>> to people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will build 
>> …” or “at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. 
>> 
>> In the past I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:
>> - build a mobile messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql 
>> database)
>> - build desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, 
>> using the clipboard etc)
>> - learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCode
>> 
>> I think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:
>> -  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want lots of people to turn up!), something like 
>> “learn now to connect to the Pokemon Go! API”
>> - doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for the workshop
>> - can give a positive experience to participants with differing levels of 
>> ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for those 
>> who need them) 
>> 
>> So, ideas and suggestions please!
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> PS: my next workshop is on 17th September and I haven’t decided what to go 
>> in it 
>> http://www.meetup.com/The-THINQTANQ-Events-Meetups-and-More-in-Plymouth/events/226749341/
>>  
>> 
>> PPS: ask potential participants what the workshop topic should be usually 
>> doesn’t help much!
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Devin Asay]

> On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:54 AM, Dave Kilroy  wrote:
> 
> This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshops
> 
> That is, where one of us is organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and 
> are looking for a main topic for the day.
> 
> I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that would 
> be nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can say 
> to people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will build 
> …” or “at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. 
> 
> In the past I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:
> - build a mobile messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql 
> database)
> - build desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, 
> using the clipboard etc)
> - learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCode
> 
> I think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:
> -  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want lots of people to turn up!), something like 
> “learn now to connect to the Pokemon Go! API”
> - doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for the workshop
> - can give a positive experience to participants with differing levels of 
> ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for those 
> who need them) 
> 
> So, ideas and suggestions please!

Dave,

I’ve done this a lot over the years, and you’re right, settling on a compelling 
app to create during the workshop is key. These are some of the ideas I’ve used:

- A drag and drop matching game.

- A to-do list app.

- A simple e-reader app.

- A walking tour app with a map with interactive sites that you can click for 
additional information and photos, etc.

Hope this helps.

Devin

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Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

[Dave Kilroy]

This is a request for ideas for LiveCode workshops

That is, where one of us is organising a day-long workshop on LiveCode and are 
looking for a main topic for the day.

I’m not looking for fully-worked up teaching resources (although that would be 
nice), but general ideas or topics for the workshop - so that we can say to 
people, and publicise “come to this LiveCode workshop where we will build …” or 
“at this LiveCode workshop you will learn how to …”. 

In the past I’ve done LiveCode workshops where the main idea has been:
- build a mobile messaging app (that connects to a web service and mysql 
database)
- build desktop widgets (little things like an app that watches a folder, using 
the clipboard etc)
- learn how to search documents and save notes with LiveCode

I think my ideal would be to get an idea which is:
-  a ‘draw’ (afterall I want lots of people to turn up!), something like “learn 
now to connect to the Pokemon Go! API”
- doesn’t involve me doing too too much preparation work for the workshop
- can give a positive experience to participants with differing levels of 
ability (perhaps by my preparing some partly completed exercises for those who 
need them) 

So, ideas and suggestions please!

Kind regards

Dave

PS: my next workshop is on 17th September and I haven’t decided what to go in 
it 
http://www.meetup.com/The-THINQTANQ-Events-Meetups-and-More-in-Plymouth/events/226749341/
 

PPS: ask potential participants what the workshop topic should be usually 
doesn’t help much!



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