Hello,
1)
At 23:20 +0800 20/08/01, Marian Petrides wrote:
>.. If I recall the entire first half of Danny Goodmans' book is
>"getting started" stuff--and that amounts to 2 or 300 pages. I read
>the whole thing and really NEEDED that intro to get up and running.
The same for me!!
Basically I think that *people having never used*, or even never
heard, of languages like Hypercard need a long introduction.
2)
BTW in the excellent Dany Goodman's book, there are, at least in the
edition I have (2.0), important things missing:
- The notion of function is not well explained (DG speaks mainly of
built-in functions, which is something different, in my view). I
discovered only after a long practice that creating functions was as
easy as creating other handlers.. Saying that there are basically two
types of handlers: "on xx"; and "function yy", and that you mention a
handler in another handler to use it, is one of the first thing to
explain.
- Passing many parameters to another handler is also something it
took me a long time to discover! While it is really convenient in
many cases.
- And, last but not least, using various itemdelimiters to manage a
database, preferably as an external file, was also something that I
needed years to really discover and put in practice.
These things are part of "the basics" of HC and Revo. Explaining
them clearly to a newcomer will help him very much!
(Sorry if this is done in parts of the documentation I have not read ! :-)
Regards
Philippe Lestang
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