Marielle et al,
If nothing else, I'm flushing out a lot of info. It is obvious that
you have spent a great deal of time on these "approaches". I, also,
have to make a living and do all of this stuff in my "spare" time;
but I'm hoping to eventually know enough that I can shorten the time
I spend making a living by doing it more efficiently.
I just used the multiline msg box this past week to do some fairly
complicated calculations that I might have, ordinarily, tried to do
with a hand calculator. Not the kind of thing I have to do very
often, so I've not written any tools that can be used to do them. I
made a number of mistakes and ended up having to redo everything
several times before I obtained the answers I wanted. Without the msg
box this could have been a nightmare. I even uncovered one or two
"bugs" in the msg box that required a workaround. This whole process
will be grist for a future article on Macinstruct.com.
Again, thanks, Jacque too. I'm not thinking about all of the
scripting solutions that have been addressed so much as the types of
"things"; at least at the outset. Collating the scripting solutions
can come much later. Even providing key words for which to search in
the attempt to solve some challenge might be a big help. How many
times have one of you gone off on a wild goose chase only to find
that it would have been very simple if you had only been looking for
the correct phrase or word.
Joe Wilkins
On Feb 17, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Marielle Lange wrote:
Marielle has been trying to the compilation for quite awhile, but
some of
the issues are that it takes a lot of work to get things
collected, edited
for clarity and instruction purposes, then indexed so new users
can find
them.
Thanks for the mention, Jim. Various things.
Maybe you should give building a compilation a shot from a new user
perspective?
(1) That's what I tried to do in my first approach to compiling
useful resources. I put a list of all the resources i know about here:
<http://revolution.widged.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?
page=RevolutionWebsites>
In particular, to answer Jo's question, a list of tutorials of
particular relevance to beginner users:
<http://revolution.widged.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?
page=TutorialsExample>
I pasted some more links useful to the beginner scripter on the
forum "Getting Started with Revolution Studio or Enterprise":
<http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=540>
One issue is that advanced work is complicated and requires
experience, but
what constitutes advanced work/concepts that new users are not
ready for?
(2) This is a question difficult to answer. I gave it a try with my
second approach. I created a collection of snippet and codes that I
tried to tag for different categories. One of these categories was
"1 novice coder 2 beginner coder 3 intermediate coder 4 advanced
coder 5 expert coder". However I find it difficult to apply these
tags and not all snippets are tagged for that category.
<http://codes.widged.com/>
The problem with the codes CMS is that it takes an awful lot of
time to cut and paste snippets from the list to the CMS.
(3) The new approach is to create a system by which I can run
linguistic analyses of the content of all mailing lists and forums
and then tag each node for critical words contained into that email
as well as additional nodes like the categories above. I got a
first draft of this work which gave me satisfaction. But I will
need up to two weeks of work to get something members of the
community can use. There is then problem that I am a freelance.
Giving to the community has to come after earning a living. I do
that when at periods between freelance work. I didn't have much of
these for the last months. I can't tell you when I will have time
to finish this.
Marielle
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Bite-size Applications for Education
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