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From: The LiveCode Team
What better time to grab your copy of LiveCode University and really understand coding. LiveCode University This great, very reasonably priced self contained coding course created by Devin Asay at BYU has recently been updated with new content and a facelift. It also now runs on Win 64bit and Mac Catalina. | | | | What better way to spend your lockdown time? Give yourself a new skill. LiveCode University assumes no past experience programming. You will start with the basic principals of computational thinking and build up step-by-step. The course content was created by Brigham Young University and has been taught there successfully for several years. The skills you learn will make it easier for you to learn many other languages and technologies in the future if you choose to. Learning Outcomes - Introduction to programming
- Writing your first program
- The LiveCode development environment
- Working with objects
- Working with images
- Interface design
- Variables and containers
- Constants and literals
- Arithmetic
- Commands and functions
- Concatenation
- Working with text
- Working with audio
- And more…
In addition to the topics above, the course contains many practical examples and tasks for you to work through. It also includes quizzes that you can use to check your comprehension as you go. At the end of the course you will receive a certificate of completion. | | Recently updated In this upgrade to LiveCode University, virtually every lesson has been clarified and expanded. In addition, many new interactive examples have been added. - Updated LiveCode interface screenshots
- Added coverage of LivCode text tokens introduced by the Unicode refactoring in LiveCode 7, including trueWord, sentence, and paragraph chunk tokens; trueWordOffset(), sentenceOffset(), and paragraphOffset() functions.
- Updated audio and video playback and recording lessons.
- Expanded and clarified Introduction to Functions with new, interactive examples added.
- Updated LiveCode how-to videos
- Many assignments have been clarified, visually updated or simplified
| | Improved User Interface This version of LCU has had an extensive facelift, improving the user experience. Improvements include: - Icons and images optimized for high-resolution monitors
- An updated Comprehension Check interface
- Newer fonts for content and UI elements
- Higher-contrast background/foreground colors.
- Better resizing for embedded images
- Use of scalable vector graphics (SVG) for navigation icons
| | Coming soon: Supplemental lessons on topics such as Writing Custom Functions, Text Encoding, and Introduction to Arrays. These will become available through regular content updates to all users of the new LCU version starting this spring and summer.
LCU undergoes frequent review for accuracy and changes in LiveCode. The good news is that, thanks to LCU's Content Update feature you don't have to wait for a new release to get the latest content updates. LCU will automatically check for content updates at each launch. | | | | |
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