RE: [Pythoncard-users] (no subject)

[David L. <wh...@oz...>]

IIRC, one of the early selling points of HC was it's attraction to people
who where not programmers and perhaps not interested in programming per se.
In a lot of ways, the Mac was the first toaster and was designed with
toaster users in mind, not bit-wranglers. (As far as I can tell, the Mac is
still more for toaster users, DTP being the Mac's killer app last I heard.)

I wonder how many people that started out using HC as a means of organizing
their toast collection ended up becoming interested in the scripting aspects
of HC and thence to more a more general interest in programming?

While a "script wizard" such as Dan's Script-Expert might not be of much
interest to experienced Python programmers, it might be very interesting to
a non-programmer or newbie Python programmer. Personally, I think it would
be the killer feature that made PythonCard attractive across a wide
audience.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

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> Shafer
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>
> >Hopefully we can produce a development environment that allows
> >non-programmers to build simple apps without seeing actual code.  This
> >is a big task but would go a long way to getting PythonCard accepted by
> >a larger audience.
>
> I don't know if anyone ever saw my crowning software achievment, "Dan
> Shafer's ScriptExpert," but it was a (largely successful, I think)
> attempt to create a tool in which people could write scripts by
> clicking on buttons and having the program build the script. Highly
> interactive. Sold well for a HC thingie, got a number of good reviews.
>
> Doing something like that for a better-structured language like
> Python might be feasible, but I'm not sure fruitful. That is, I think
> most Python coders would think it silly and useless.
>
> However, creating a squished-down version of that kind of scripting
> tool for a subset of Python that is represented by the PythonCard
> events and handlers, e.g., would be an intriguing notion. Or would it?
> --
> Dan Shafer, Author-Consultant
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