Step 1

Week 1 (January 29-February 1) — Fundamentals

To do:

• Install the Corona Editor in Sublime:http://coronalabs.com/products/editor/
• Extract text from PDFs of pages

To learn:

• Introduction to Corona SDK:http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/start/helloWorld/index.html

• Creating your first project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kalbVE9QgMs

• Setting and working with vars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4U0ii1FjwE

• Creating and using functions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP9QruPMd4w

To deliver:

• Basic app with text of the story in it

Summary of what I learned:

Definitions of terms

• function - smaller and re-useable chunks (D.R.Y. = don't repeat yourself)

• variable - a placeholder for values that I will use throughout my app.  This can be letters, numbers or underscores, but can't begin with a number nor contain a symbol or any other symbols. They are also case sensitive and only exist within the scope of each individual funcion

• event - an action that the user does to interact with the app

• listener - a value that is waiting for the user to act a certain way before it outputs something

A few resources I found during my work

• http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/system/pathForFile.html

• http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/data/readWriteFiles/index.html

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXb7UHVarAQ
• http://coronalabs.com/blog/2011/07/29/how-to-use-xml-files-in-corona/

Questions/concerns/things to come back to

• How is the text organized?  
• How does the app know to which object I'm referring to? 
• How can I reference .txt or .xml files so I don't need to copy an paste all the actual text I want in to the code?
• How do I get the terminal simulator to work? I get the following error:
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• What is the necessary format of the .XML file to be in for the app to pick it up?

My functioning code so far: 

(https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B406rJ0oHVzZY0p2SkxCTFFKTWs&usp=sharing)

local physics = require( "physics" )

physics.start( )

local background = display.newImage( "background.png" )

background.x = 160; background.y = 195

local storyText = display.newText( "THE CONSTANT TIN SOLDIER", 160, 150, "Georgia", 20)

storyText:setFillColor( .169,.169,.169 )