Seccia Basics 02 by Bill Aitken

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Name: Seccia Basics 02
Author: Bill Aitken
Date: June 2010
Turorial & Sources: http://www.seccia.org/tutorials/secciabasics02.zip

Introduction

All computer programs, to a greater or lesser degree, depend upon data. Customer names are entered into database systems, angles are provided to trigonometry functions in 3D games, grand totals are calculated on order forms – all these are examples of data storage and manipulation. Just about everything you do in Seccia will handle data in one form or another and it is important, now that we know how to use the Seccia IDE, to understand how to handle numbers and text. It’s also important to say that I do not intend replacing the Seccia documentation. I will show how to use the different data types by means of selected example functions but I will not cover all of them.

What Will We Learn?

In this tutorial, we’ll look at how we set up objects to handle the storage and manipulation of data. You will learn about:

- Types of data objects
- How to create a data object
- Getting and setting the values of data objects
- Handling: Strings, Numbers, Values, Colours, Paths

[saschavalentin]

Thank you Bill for these great tutorials.
I have never seen a better one that is so easy to understand before. But I hope you have the time to produce more of it. Especially for the use of tables or databases.

[Cran0g]

Hi Sascha,

Many thanks for the kind comments. Yes, I do plan to do more. I've just been very busy recently - I design courses for a living. The next tutorial will be on "conditions" and the one after that will be about "loop structures". Beyond that, I haven't really considered. The whole idea is to give people enough information to get themselves started in Seccia. I think it could be a great language but the lack of tutorials is definitely preventing it from reaching critical mass in terms of user population.

Sylvain gave us the language for free so let's all do our bit to make it a success.

Nice to hear from you.