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by Heather Nagey

I've some great news for you this week. A brand new LiveCode book has just been published! In addition, we are supporting a new LiveCode User Group in India, and another of our Academy Graduates has just had her app published in the Apple app store.

LiveCode Book
Our very warmest congratulations to Colin Holgate, longtime LiveCode Guru and now proud author of a newly published book titled "LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide". This is now available for purchase from Amazon and it looks like a great new resource for all of you out there who want to learn more on this topic. From the product description:

"LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide" will explain how to create applications with the easiest, most practical cross platform framework available, Livecode Mobile and upload the apps to the appstore with minimal effort.

Throughout the book, you'll learn details that will help you become a pro at mobile app development using LiveCode. You begin with simple calculator application and quickly enhance it using LiveCode Mobile. Start by learning the interface controls for videos and images of LiveCode’s environment. Dig into configuring devices, building user interfaces, and making rich media applications, then finish by uploading the mobile applications to App Stores. You will learn how to build apps for devices such as iPhone, Android with the recently developed LiveCode Mobile through sample applications of increasing complexity.

Way to go Colin, and we wish you enormous success with this.

User Group India
Karthik Sukumaran, our technical support contact, would like to invite all Indian developers to join him in his new LiveCode Users group. His interests include researching and developing LiveCode applications for Mobile platforms as well as Mac and Linux.He also enjoys participating in technical discussion forums and open source initiatives. LiveCode Developers Group India aims to bring like minded people together and give you a platform to develop, brainstorm and interact among yourselves. You can join the group on Meetup, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Meetup:

http://www.meetup.com/LiveCode-Developers-india/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/260835254022273/

LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/LiveCode-Developers-India-4532260?gid=4532260&trk=hb_side_g

Number Wizard, by Judy Novotny
I was delighted to hear that one of our Academy graduates has now published her very first app, called Number Wizard. She has shared her experiences in creating this app in an article, shortly to be published on Daves Computer Tips, so do keep an eye out for that!

Number Wizard is a basic maths app that goes from counting to times tables and division. There are four problem types:

• Counting - Uses animals (with sounds) and stars.
  
• Counting Problems - Addition, subtraction or both. Animals (with sounds) and stars.
  
• Arithmetic Problems - Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  
• Times Tables - You specify which times table to use.

There are three play modes:

• Flash Card - Gives you the answer.
  
• Practice - Solve problems without keeping score.
  
• Keep Score - Tracks your score. The wizard lets you know when you have a new high streak or high score.

About the Author Heather Nagey is Customer Services Manager for RunRev Ltd.