This part of the SWAT progam, getting used to the decisions and menus and buttons and what they represent, is likely the most difficult; especially with this, what one would assume to be the simplest part: Putting together two actors with a simple verb action. But the possibilities in outcome are tremendous–thus assuring reader/user interest, and so the writer must adjust to keep in mind not only how to accumulate and offer a myriad of responses, but to put some effort in learning how to establish that while learning the program.
I am admittedly lost.
One of the frustrations for me is that in following the tutorial (either one of two), I don’t get the same pulldown menus, nor does the program change to resemble what is in the tutorial. The instructions, while explicit, needfully jump around themselves to follow one line of learning or another, and then too, I would have appreciated working with the same premise throughout rather than a couple different examples to simplify and confirm the learning process. The "or you could" method isn’t working well for one so scatterminded to begin with.
I really need that cabin in the woods with no tv or phone but with internet connection for about a week to hunker down and really learn this thing. I’m beginning to suspect that I’m a slow learner, perhaps even a bit dense, despite all high academic gradings I’ve received since kindergarten.
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