RE: [Pythoncard-users] (no subject)

[Dan S. <py...@da...>]

At 01:06 PM 4/15/2002 -0700, David LeBlanc wrote:
>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.

I have tentatively concluded that I will wait until PythonCard stablizes in 
a release form that Kevin is happy going public with, *then* creating 
scriptExpert or its equivalent for the inventive user audience that I want 
to appeal to. PythonCard has morphed a bit from its (very) early intent to 
be a HyperCard "clone" and now I think sees that product as one of many 
that can and will be built on top of PythonCard, which will become seen as 
a highly usable GUI building environment for wxPython (or a prime subset 
thereof).

I'm sure if I've misstated this, Kevin will jump in and correct me!

>David LeBlanc
>Seattle, WA USA
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Shafer
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 13:19
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> > Subject: [Pythoncard-users] (no subject)
> >
> >
> > >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?
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