Table of Contents: TouchDevelop :

TouchDevelop : Programming on the Go.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Horspool, Nigel.
Other Authors:	Tillmann, Nikolai., Bishop, Judith.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley, CA : Apress L. P., 2013.
Edition:	3rd ed.
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Preface
List of figures
List of tables
Chapter 1: Introduction to TouchDevelop
1.1 Computers want to be programmed
1.2 What is TouchDevelop?
1.3 The TouchDevelop ecosystem
1.4 History and Future
1.5 Platforms
1.5.1 Installing TouchDevelop on a Windows phone
1.5.2 Running TouchDevelop on other platforms
1.6 The scripting language
Chapter 2: The Scripting Language
2.1 Introduction - the language flavor
2.1.1 A sample program (/okzc)
2.2 Datatypes and variables
2.2.1 The Invalid value
2.2.2 met hodThe Nothing type or an operation which does not return a usable result, but which
Value types
Number
String
2.2.3 Reference types
Reference types provided by the API
Collection types
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2.2.5The Objects for types.
2.2.6 Decorators
2.2.7
Global persistent data
2.2.8
Art items
2.3 Expressions
2.3.1 Constants
Explicit Constants
Named constants
The invalid value
2.3.2script cVariables
Local variables
Global data variables
Action parameters Parameters bmore associated
2.3.3 Operators
2.3.4
Calling an action
2.3.5 Calling an API method
2.4 Statements
2.4.1 Expression
2.4.2 Declaration and assignment
2.4.3
If statement
2.4.4 While loop
2.4.5
For loop
2.4.6 For each loop
2.5 Actions
2.5.1 Defining an action
Public versus private
2.5.2 Call and return
2.5.3 Input parameters
2.5.4 Result parameters
2.5.5 Calling a library action
Rebinding libraries
Visibility
2.6 Events
2.7 Pages
2.8 Creating library scripts
Implementation restrictions on libraries
Chapter 3: The Wall - using the screen.
3.1 Output - the writing on the wall
3.1.1 Output of simple values
3.1.2de fault Direction of Outputdirection of output
3.1.3Dappropriateproduces produces ispla yio bnOutput of composite values ge
3.1.4
Output of media values
3.1.5 Output of social values
3.1.6 Output of web value
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3.2 Input of values from the touchscreen
3.3 Updating the wall's content
3.3.1 Updatable textbox
3.3.2 For Updating a board display
3.4 Events on the touchscreen
3.4.1 Tap wall events
3.4.2 Tap board events
3.5 Pushing and popping pages
3.6 Titles and subtitles
3.7 Wall buttons
3.8 On-demand creation of output
Chapter 4: The Web
4.1 URLs and webpages
4.1.1 Working with URLs
4.1.2 Creating and using web-based links
Using the wall with web-based links
4.1.3 Checking the internet connection
4.2 Downloading and uploading files
4.2.1 Downloading a text file or downloading HTML
4.2.2 Download a picture
4.2.3 Downloading sounds of music
4.2.4 Uploading strings and files
4.3 Downloading structured data
4.3.1 Downloading information in JSON format
4.3.2ML i s shDownloading information in XML format
4.4 REST guidelines and web requests
Chapter 5: Audio
5.1 Music
5.1.1 Working with collections of songs
5.1.2 Obtaining an individual song, available on all devices
5.1.3 Playing an individual song
5.1.4 An ex ample script
5.2 Sounds
5.3 Microphone
Chapter 6: Camera, Graphics and Video
6.1 Camera
6.1.1 A sample program
6.2 Working with pictures
6.2.1 Picture albums and picture collections (Windows Phoneand Android)
6.2.2 Access to pictures on other devices
6.2.3 Manipulating a picture
6.3 Static graphics drawing and display
6.4 Playing videos from the internet
Chapter 7: Sensors
7.1 The sensors
7.2 Sensor-driven events.
7.2.1 Example script: A pedometer (/jbpv)
7.3 Accelerometer
7.3.1 Direction of acceleration forces
7.3.2 Example script: a light show (/tbcb)
7.4 Compass
7.4.1 Example script: a magnetic compass
7.5 Gyroscope
7.6 Motion
Chapter 8: Interactions
8.1 Social messages
8.1.1 Working with messages
8.1.2 Message collections
8.2 Locations, places, maps
8.3 Emails
8.4 Phone Calls
8.5 2D barcodes
8.6 SMS messages (WP8 only)
8.7 Calendar and appointments (WP8 only)
8.8 Contacts (WP8 and Android only)
Chapter 9: Game Board
9.1 Introduction
9.1.1 What is a sprite?
9.1.2 Coordinates and units
9.1.3 Game program structure
9.2 The Board datatype
9.2.1 Creating sprites
9.2.2 Obstacles and bounararies
9.2.3 Forces and animation
Gravity and friction
Springs and anchors
9.3 The Sprite datatype
Visual attributes
Position and motion
Accelerations, forces and bounces
9.3.1 Managing sprites
9.4 The Sprite Collection datatype
9.5 Touching and board events
9.5.1
9.5.1 Board touching actions
9.5.2 gameloop event
9.5.3 tap board event
9.5.4 swipe board event
9.5.5 tap sprite in XXX event
9.5.6 swipe sprite in XXX event
9.5.7 drag sprite in XXX event
9.5.8 tap sprite SSS, swipe sprite SSS, drag sprite SSS
9.6 Debugging games
Chapter 10: UI with Boxes and Pages
10.1 Page Overview
10.2 Box Overview
10.3 Examples of Boxes and Pages
10.3.1 Page Example 1
10.3.2 Page Example 2
10.3.3 Page Example 3
10.4 Working with Pages
10.4.1 Entering and Leaving a Page
10.4.2 Coding Restrictions
10.5 Live Editing of the User Interface
10.6 API Support for Boxes and Pages
Chapter 11: Authenticating Web Services
11.1 Registering your app
11.2 Authenticating
11.3 Libraries
11.4 Advanced topics.
11.4.1 Unique redirect URIs
11.4.2 State variable in redirect URI
Chaper 12: Editing TouchDevelop Scripts
A.1 The starting point
A.2 The editing steps
Getting started - providing an input parameter
Adding the first statement to the action
Adding the second and third statements
Inserting the if statement
Defining the Gameloop Event
Trying out the script
A.3 Additional steps
Revising the script
Publishing the script
A.4 More advanced editing features
A.4.1 Refactoring code into a new action
A.4.2 I Copying and pasting code
A.4.3 Surrounding code in a higher-level construct
Chaper 13: TouchDevelop Services
B.1 bazaar
B.2 box
B.3 collections
B.4 colors
B.5 contract
B.6 invalid
B.7 languages
B.8 locations
B.9 maps
B.10 math
B.11 media
B.12 phone
B.13 player
B.14 senses
B.15 social
B.16 tags
B.17 tile
B.18 time
B.19 wall
B.20 web
Chaper 14: TouchDevelop Datatypes
C.1 Appointment
C.2 Appointment Collection
C.3 Board
C.4 Boolean
C.5 Camera
C.6 Color
C.7 Contact
C.8 Contact Collection
C.9 DateTime
C.10 Form Builder
C.11 Json Builder
C.12 Json Object
C.13 Link
C.14 Link Collection
C.15 Location
C.16 Location Collection
C.17 Map
C.18 Matrix
C.19 Message
C.20 Message Collection
C.21 Motion
C.22 Number
C.23 Number Collection
C.24 Number Map
C.25 OAuth Response
C.26 Page
C.27 Page Button
C.28 Page Collection
C.29 Picture
C.30 Picture Album
C.31 Picture Albums
C.32 Pictures
C.33 Place
C.34 Place Collection
C.35 Playlist
C.36 Playlists
C.37 Song
C.38 Songs
C.39 Song Album
C.40 Song Albums
C.41 Songs
C.42 Sound
C.43 Sprite
C.44 Sprite Set
C.45 String
C.46 String Collection
C.47 String Map
C.48 TextBox.
C.49 Vector3
C.50 Web Request
C.51 Web Response
C.52 Xml Object
Chaper 15: Platform Capabilities
D.1 Supported Browsers
D.2 General Features
D.3 Supported Sensors and Devices
D.4 Support for Services/Resources
D.5 Support for Created Apps
D.5.1 Apps for Windows Phone Store
D.5.2 Apps for Windows Store
Chaper 16: TouchDevelop Editor on a Windows Phone
E.1 The sample program
E.2 The back button, undo and mistakes
E.3 The editing example
E.4 Additional steps
E.5 Refactoring code into a new action
Index.

TouchDevelop : Programming on the Go.

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