Chapter 1. LiveCode Fundamentals
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LiveCode has an English-like programming language, a graphical development environment, and an easy-to-understand structural metaphor. When you create an application, you spend more time thinking about how to implement the different features and less about the complexities of the tool you are using. However, if you've never used LiveCode before, it's still going to be unfamiliar at first. This chapter is to bring you up to speed and make you ready for the later chapters that will require you to be more familiar with the terminology and features of this tool.
All of LiveCode is easy, but there are thousands of easy things to learn! Throughout the book, we will look at these things, that you can use for mobile applications in particular, but first, we should go over some of the basics.
In this chapter, we will:
- Become familiar with the LiveCode environment
- Investigate the hierarchy of a LiveCode "stack"
- Create a simple calculator application
- Learn about the many different interface controls
So, let's get on with it.
