Step 2...

Whoa. I'm going BACKWARD on Step 2, not forward. This is one of those times where I'm gonna put in WAY more hours just to figure out one thing than I consider 10 points to be worth...

My Learning Contract

1.      Corona Basics

a.      Go to learningcorona.com and do Rafael Hernandez's first 1-4 lessons

b.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/07/10/best-practices-for-organizing-projects/

2.      Detecting touches and other basics

a.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/07/24/detecting-object-and-screen-taps/

b.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/06/12/applying-basic-animation-with-transitions/

c.       http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/05/22/adding-buttons-to-your-games-and-apps/

3.      Photoshop Basics and Creating My Buttons

a.      Choose 3 or 4 from http://psd.tutsplus.com/sessions/photoshop-basix/ 
1)   Create the buttons needed for my app using Photoshop

4.      Working with text & scope of functions

a.      http://blog.evilgenius.com.au/getting-custom-fonts-to-work-in-corona-sdk/
AND http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2011/07/13/custom-fonts-corona/

b.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/02/07/tutorial-text-input-with-native-ui/

c.       http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2011/09/21/tutorial-scopes-for-functions/

5.      Storyboard & Scenes

a.      (http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/08/21/storyboard-basic-usage/)

b.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/07/31/storyboard-scene-purging-vs-removal/

c.       look at and break down the storyboard source code in the kitchen sink

d.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/04/27/scene-overlays-and-parameter-passing/

6.      List views

a.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/01/31/creating-lists-with-the-tableview-widget/

b.      look at the listview examples in the kitchen sink

7.      Understanding Tables (data) in Corona SDK

a.      http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2011/06/21/understanding-lua-tables-in-corona-sdk/

b.      http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=6036

c.       Manipulating Lua tables (Part): http://howto.oz-apps.com/2011/09/if-i-were-carpenter-would-you-buy-my.html

8.      Understanding XML

a.      W3Schools.  XML Basic.  Home through Attributes (http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp)

9.      Writing XML

a.      Working with XML in CoronaSDK http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2011/07/29/how-to-use-xml-files-in-corona/

b.      Manipulating Lua tables (Part 2): http://howto.oz-apps.com/2011/09/tables-part-2.html

10.  Clean-up.  Get everything to work together.

Game On

This might actually happen. I downloaded Corona today...and I kind of understood it?!  Kinda. Wow. Lua is the language I'll be programming in. So glad they allow two devices for the Corona download. Whew.

Also, the code from Edo....I also kinda understood that!  Holy scary. This crazy-tastic idea might ACTUALLY come to fruition. Huh. I wonder if I could figure out how to get the University to pay me for it... :)

They took it and ran with it

After I approached Scott and Edo about my idea for an EFY app, they decided if I really wanted to do something that had serious potential for DCE buy-in I should create a different app...

An online contract acceptance app.

What?!  Can I do that? Turns out maybe.

Next steps:
1) get data from Edo
2) start designing
3) chat with Scott about my ideas for the design