Nigel,

If you were able to use the original HyperCard, but with the advanced 
capabilities of Revolution/LiveCode, on today's hardware you cannot imagine how 
ecstatic you would be doing the same thing. Your learning curve would be a 
matter of hours, rather than a couple of weeks. Of course we didn't have the 
Internet or Lists like this to help us, but the early books on H/C, and there 
were many very good ones, were all one needed. Inside of two weeks, I was 
already teaching others how to use H/C on Mac SE30s with Mac Users clamoring to 
get a seat. As always, my motto was: "the best way to learn ANYTHING is to 
teach it."

So, find a venue where you can teach LiveCode and get paid, nominally of 
course, to learn it better yourself. Instead of working ON your son's projects, 
set up a class to teach LiveCode to your son, and have him invite a few of his 
friends/schoolmates. You'll be surprised at how much you will learn in order to 
answer their queries. I no longer contribute, but you may wish to check out 
<http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials> which is still a fabulous resource for 
Mac Users of all levels. Dig deeply and you'll find a few of my old 
contributions; even about Revolution in its pre-LiveCode days.

Good luck,

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Nigel Soden wrote:

> But, I'm a fairly new-bee to LC and to date I must say that I look forward to 
> coming home after working in C# .Net (F...$%^&* usless. s....) and working on 
> some projects for my son. The difference between the two is that I know one 
> works while the other pretends to work. :)

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