"the question is this:"
How many new users of LiveCode are actually "brand new" in the sense
that they have NO computer programming
experience at all?
And a few supplementary questions:
How many brand new users are going to be "freaked out" when the desktop
"they know and love" vanishes without a particularly obvious
way to make it reappear without quitting LiveCode?
Is this 'reappearance' of an enforced backdrop (Yes, Sports fans, it
came up way back) a 'fudge' to keep people who are rooting for a unified
tiddley-pom
(what's it called?) of your collective back?
Richmond.
On 7/19/17 2:14 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2017-07-19 12:50, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
Lumpy custard!
Just like your grandmother used to make?* ;)
Other people who have commented on this are all "on this list";
otherwise they would have been unable to comment.
Indeed - my point was simply that due to a bug which we obviously did
not notice before release, the default backdrop ON option was not
limited to those who were experiencing the 'first run' of the product.
Thus meaning, that it affected existing users (which was not our intent).
What kind of 'analysis' would that constitute?
So, at the user testing session, copious notes are taken, and
discussed afterwards. We also ask people involved to write up their
experience and give us feedback on specific points (and generally),
these are also discussed. This then allows us to have some idea how
'good' an idea is - i.e. whether it is worth its cost balanced against
its effectiveness.
In this case, the question is this:
For brand new users of LiveCode, who have never seen it before (and
quite possibly never used a programming environment before) does
having a backdrop in place initially help them in their first steps
with the product, particularly from the point of view of doing the
first run tutorials.
This is of course a slightly wooly and subjective question. However,
it is probably a good idea if over 50% of people we try it out on
(from various different groups - with different backgrounds) think it
has actually 'helped'.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
P.S. As a child, I used to frequently comment on the consistency of my
grandmother's custard... Her general response was "You grandfather
likes it thick, boy!"
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