John -
My suggestion, for what it's worth, is to practice getting up to speed by developing simple "game"-like projects. One I like to use for newbies that come my way, for instance, might be called "Coordinate Game". Display a pair of x,y coordinates. Have a graphic (or image or icon-ed button) available for the user to drag around the screen (or click at a location s/he wishes to "guess"). Display the coordinates of the spot where the user has dragged the graphic. Count the number of tries. When the user gets the "loc" of the graphic sufficiently near the displayed x,y, do some kind affirming display, and present (possibly at the user's request) a new pair of coordinates. A nicety: Do all the displaying of information in a separate (palette-style) window, so the whole main window is available for dragging/guessing.
Have fun.
Jerry
On Mar 14, 2005, at 10:15 PM, John Smiley wrote:
I am a true newbie, not just to revolution, but to programming. I was looking into having a somewhat simple ( I think ) software application developed and thought maybe instead I should take the time to learn how to do it myself. Especially since I have more time than money and enjoy learning how to do things.
I have three questions:
1. Having absolutley no programming knowledge at all, other than learning Revolution, do I need to learn other things like Visual Basic, etc.
2. Is there a book that lays out the basic or fundmentals?
3. Would someone like to help tutor me?
For the the third question, I am looking for someone to help guide me through developing the application I have in mind.
Thanks.
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