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Like joshstrange I want to love this but it's hard. I echo the comments about the front page. It's a lot of marketing speak, but I could really use a 25 word

Like joshstrange I want to love this but it's hard. I echo the comments about the front page. It's a lot of marketing speak, but I could really use a 25 word version on what this is going to do for me and how I'm going to use it. If I go to the examples, I get the chance to see a ton of example programs. But I'm dumped into an IDE that I've never used. One change would be to put a run button as a top menu choice. It would be really helpful if the programs had a comment at the top about what the program will do. I also looked in the FAQ pages hoping for a "how does this work" "how do I use this" etc. and also just got two questions about "how do I pay for this". Josh got downvoted pretty hard, (and I guess I'll follow), but he had some spot on comments.

mdp2021 2y ago
> a lot of marketing speak I have just re-read the page, I cannot see a single instance of «marketing speak». What do you mean? > I'm dumped into an IDE that I've never used To get started, [F1] for the documentation (also cursor-contextual) and [F5] to "compile and run" will suffice¹. It's a lightweight IDE, a "type in the text editor and run, you can learn features and configure preferences later - easy first, complex if you need" thing. ¹: <menu> > 'Compiler' > 'Compile/Run [F5]' (first row) ¹: <menu> > 'Help' > 'Help... [F1]' (first row) > if the programs had a comment at the top about what the program will do The purpose is just "minimal code for a simple demonstration of the area in the filename": "2DDrawing.sb", "Accelerometer.sb", "Array.sb", "CanvasGadget.sb", "Cypher.sb"... A few dozen example files to cover the the language and libraries. The documentation also contains code snippets (as in "this is a common context for this command"), but the example files are full small programs. > "how does this work" "how do I use this" The documentation in the website is at https://www.spiderbasic.com/documentation/ https://www.spiderbasic.com/documentation/ - it is linked in the first paragraph and it is in the "Support" section of the top menu. Otherwise, with the software installed, the documentation is offline ([F1] opens it).

mdp2021 2y ago

> a lot of marketing speak I have just re-read the page, I cannot see a single instance of «marketing speak». What do you mean? > I'm dumped into an IDE that I've never used To get started, [F1] for the documentation (also cursor-contextual) and [F5] to "compile and run" will suffice¹. It's a lightweight IDE, a "type in the text editor and run, you can learn features and configure preferences later - easy first, complex if you need" thing. ¹: <menu> > 'Compiler' > 'Compile/Run [F5]' (first row) ¹: <menu> > 'Help' > 'Help... [F1]' (first row) > if the programs had a comment at the top about what the program will do The purpose is just "minimal code for a simple demonstration of the area in the filename": "2DDrawing.sb", "Accelerometer.sb", "Array.sb", "CanvasGadget.sb", "Cypher.sb"... A few dozen example files to cover the the language and libraries. The documentation also contains code snippets (as in "this is a common context for this command"), but the example files are full small programs. > "how does this work" "how do I use this" The documentation in the website is at https://www.spiderbasic.com/documentation/ https://www.spiderbasic.com/documentation/ - it is linked in the first paragraph and it is in the "Support" section of the top menu. Otherwise, with the software installed, the documentation is offline ([F1] opens it).