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.