OK: got that.
But, as I have stated here and "elsewhere" that's a fat lot of good for new users.
(after all, what you have done is repackaged LC's documents in an different presentation stack.)
The first thing that, IMHO, needs to be made explicitly clear it its relationship with LiveCode:
1. Is LCB a full-blown programming language which can be used completely independently of LC?
2. Is LCB a sort of semi-complete language which can only be used 'hooked on' to LC to extend LC's capabilities?
3. Something somewhere between #1 and #2?
As a 10 year old I know (my younger son, 18 years ago) managed to produce a functioning calculator ("F*ck off, Dad, I can do it myself.") with ONLY the LC setup, it would be super if there were a way a 10 year old could do something with LCB completely by themselves . . .
In an ideal world this would probably have to be worked out with several focus groups:
1. Half a dozen 9-12 year olds who are "wet behind the ears."
2. Half a dozen adults who are "wet behind the ears."
3. Half a dozen adults who have worked with LiveCode for quite some time.
4. Half a dozen adults who are competent in programming languages other than LiveCode.
And, quite obviously, whoever were to conduct these focus groups who have to be competent in LCB already (so, no, Richmond is not offering to do any of these focus groups, for the simple reason that he knows less about LCB than about speaking Cambodian).
Like anything else that does not result in a half-c*ck job this would involve time and money.
To which I WOULD add, in our slightly different situation (3 programmers and a dog . . . "Woof, Woof!"), would be - somehow to get something going with LCB that would make more sense than the thing I criticised earlier (LC's in-house slide show for people who already understand quite a bit): even, possibly a dedicated series of threads within these forums.
Personally this gives me the "screaming ab-dabs", especially as, when I was learning programming languages (BASIC 5, FORTRAN IV, PASCAL 5) nobody mentioned 'tokens'. One can only imagine what some 10 year old is going to make of it, or, for that matter, my friend Georgi (parent of a kid I teach, who is 40) is going to understand (even though he IS getting somewhere with xTalk):
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"The structure of tokens" . . . WOT?
Identifiers declared in a module are placed in a scope named using the module name. This allows disambiguation between an identifier declared in a module and an identical one declared in any of its imports, by using a fully qualified name.
I cannot pretend to understand that: and I have 47 years of computer programming experience: sometimes I wonder how I have managed to survive without knowing WTF tokens, namespaces, and modules are.
But I have, and have produced effective software for the last 32 years without that knowledge: and what it 100% crystal clear to me is that all for very jazzy terms will NOT help any would-be learners whatsoever.
Like everything else in the 'Dictionary', all that stuff is for people who ALREADY have their skates on: and the problem is how to get new boys and girls to the state that they can use that documentation to achieve anything useful.
