Total noob here, teach me please.

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#1

Around 10 years ago, I created a dice-based pencil and paper wrestling game that still has a decent following. I wanna turn it into an app, but I have no coding skills. I read Dan Nations article on Corona SDK and thought “Anything that can turn 100s of lines of code into just a few is probably a good place to start.” So I downloaded it, played with it, and I’m still clueless.

If someone could please take me under their wing with some guidance, I’d appreciate it. I’m thinking my first step would be putting together databases of information (names, stats, etc) before worrying about a GUI (tabs or buttons, for instance), but again, I’m clueless where to even begin.

Seeing as I’m new here, if I don’t get any replies here, I’ll assume this is strictly a “Hi, I’m new” sub-forum & I’ll re-post in the “Newbie Questions” sub-forum instead.

Thank you in advance,

DaveInOCNJ

#2

Around 10 years ago, I created a dice-based pencil and paper wrestling game that still has a decent following. I wanna turn it into an app, but I have no coding skills. I read Dan Nations article on Corona SDK and thought “Anything that can turn 100s of lines of code into just a few is probably a good place to start.” So I downloaded it, played with it, and I’m still clueless.

If someone could please take me under their wing with some guidance, I’d appreciate it. I’m thinking my first step would be putting together databases of information (names, stats, etc) before worrying about a GUI (tabs or buttons, for instance), but again, I’m clueless where to even begin.

Seeing as I’m new here, if I don’t get any replies here, I’ll assume this is strictly a “Hi, I’m new” sub-forum & I’ll re-post in the “Newbie Questions” sub-forum instead.

Thank you in advance,

DaveInOCNJ

Welcome to the forums!

All new accounts go through post moderation (to prevent spam), so your post was invisible. 

Naturally you are not a bot, so i’ve approved your post (it’s now publicly visible).

Best of luck with your Corona endeavours :slight_smile:

#3

https://coronalabs.com/resources/

Here is a good place to start, there are references to books and courses, as well as Corona University.

#4

The place I always go when Idon’t know something (besides the forums) is docs.coronalabs.com

Just a bit of starting help here: A dice uses the numbers (hopefully randomly) 1-6. An easy way to do that is math.random(1,6)

Remember, the internet is the best resource you can have, so use it to the fullest extent.

#5

Thanks for the welcome & such…but I suppose my first question is “Why didn’t I get email notifications of the replies?”  I’ve got the little checkboxes ticked off.

#6

I think they may be down right now, I’m not getting any either

#7

Oh, wait a minute…I think I may have put the wrong email domain when I signed up.  Any way I can check on it?

#8

Around 10 years ago, I created a dice-based pencil and paper wrestling game that still has a decent following. I wanna turn it into an app, but I have no coding skills. I read Dan Nations article on Corona SDK and thought “Anything that can turn 100s of lines of code into just a few is probably a good place to start.” So I downloaded it, played with it, and I’m still clueless.

If someone could please take me under their wing with some guidance, I’d appreciate it. I’m thinking my first step would be putting together databases of information (names, stats, etc) before worrying about a GUI (tabs or buttons, for instance), but again, I’m clueless where to even begin.

Seeing as I’m new here, if I don’t get any replies here, I’ll assume this is strictly a “Hi, I’m new” sub-forum & I’ll re-post in the “Newbie Questions” sub-forum instead.

Thank you in advance,

DaveInOCNJ

Welcome to the forums!

All new accounts go through post moderation (to prevent spam), so your post was invisible. 

Naturally you are not a bot, so i’ve approved your post (it’s now publicly visible).

Best of luck with your Corona endeavours :slight_smile:

#9

https://coronalabs.com/resources/

Here is a good place to start, there are references to books and courses, as well as Corona University.

#10

The place I always go when Idon’t know something (besides the forums) is docs.coronalabs.com

Just a bit of starting help here: A dice uses the numbers (hopefully randomly) 1-6. An easy way to do that is math.random(1,6)

Remember, the internet is the best resource you can have, so use it to the fullest extent.

#11

Thanks for the welcome & such…but I suppose my first question is “Why didn’t I get email notifications of the replies?”  I’ve got the little checkboxes ticked off.

#12

I think they may be down right now, I’m not getting any either

#13

Oh, wait a minute…I think I may have put the wrong email domain when I signed up.  Any way I can check on it?