On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Richmond wrote:
> I would argue that you can do all of that within Livecode, thereby avoiding
> a hiatus as you get kids to transfer.
>
And surely that's exactly the same argument as those who questions the
relevance of playing with a toy language like LiveCode wh
Hello,
Please don't forget: later today at 13:00u., we will have a LiveCode
meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands. See the quoted message below for
details.
Vergeet niet dat er later vandaag om 13:00u., in Utrecht een
LiveCode-bijeenkomst gehouden wordt. Zie het bijgevoegde bericht
hieronder voor
On 10/15/16 9:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
We have more posts here exploring its definition than about problems
relating to its behavior.
The discussion was very helpful for me, I've never been clear about when
I need to specifically set the defaultstack, and usually I only figure
it out when
On 15.10.2016 20:41, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
> Thank you, Richard Gaskin, for clarifying that.
>
> What that does do is confirm my view that teaching children stuff
> such as Scratch at school has little or no value in the sense that
> it is NOT a programming language.
I would c
Agreed, colin. The language and the tool should be doing the work, not
me. The compiler should be doing the work, not me.
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Ralph DiMola
wrote:
> Bliss32(Dec VMS) used periods "." for pointers. Multi dots were allowed and
> gave me many a headache back in the da
Scratch might be a digital version of Richmond's cups method. I was
impressed many years ago with his description of putting things into cups
to teach children the concept of variables, writing the name of the var on
the cup, and changing their contents. You can even put a variable into
another v
Richmond wrote:
> Thank you, Richard Gaskin, for clarifying that.
>
> What that does do is confirm my view that teaching children stuff
> such as Scratch at school has little or no value in the sense that
> it is NOT a programming language.
I would caution against using the rants of a programmer
Thank you, Richard Gaskin, for clarifying that.
What that does do is confirm my view that teaching children stuff such
as Scratch at school
has little or no value in the sense that it is NOT a programming language.
Teaching Scratch reminds me of Jas Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet:
intende
Bliss32(Dec VMS) used periods "." for pointers. Multi dots were allowed and
gave me many a headache back in the day.
Myvar==>The the variables value
.Myvar==>Address of the variables value
..Myvar==>Address of the address to the variables value
And so on...
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Infor
Richmond wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 10:22 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> Like Bill Appleton told me shortly after he left his point-and-click
>> authoring tool CourseBuilder behind to make SuperCard, there's a
>> limit on the complexity of systems that can be expressed clearly in
>> any point-and
Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> On Oct 8, 2016, at 13:22 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> The rule Dr. Raney gave me is that the defaultStack is the topmost
>>> visible stack of the lowest mode.
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2016, at 14:21 , Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>> Just tested in 8.1.1 RC 2: Two stacks open, one stack is
The difficulty with pointers and handles was that with one you could get
straight at the value you wanted, and the other you had to dereference it
first. Meaning, that you were the one who had to understand whether you were
dealing with a pointer or a handle. Computers ought to take care of thos
I don't know why you would have a problem with that;
Once you understand how to use pointers, you should have no problems with
handles;
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Bob Sneidar
wrote:
> When I was learning Pascal, I discovered that a handle was a pointer to a
> pointer. When I learned why t
Aha!
On 15.10.2016 17:04, Colin Holgate wrote:
I believe Richard was talking about tools that only did point and click.
Well tools that only do point and click are a bit of a dead loss because
their authors are
unable to make them fine-grained enough that end-users can tune them
sufficiently
I believe Richard was talking about tools that only did point and click.
Everything had to be achieved by placing elements and setting parameters.
mTropolis was one of the neater tools of that type, but it would take a lot of
logical thinking to get it to achieve things that could be done in a f
On 15.10.2016 07:14, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Filemaker has a point and click programming interface. It just gets in the way. I spent
more time perusing the dialog and sub-dialog boxes to try and figure out how to add 1 to
a variable that contains 1, that I found myself saying, "Can't I just type a
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