About This Tutorial

Background

Possibly you've gone through the earlier tutorial introducing Frontier's powers of Web site management. If not, then if you're a complete Frontier beginner you should do so before starting this tutorial, because you'll emerge familiar and comfortable with the Frontier environment.

This tutorial doesn't presuppose any of Frontier's Web site management features, but it does assume that you understand what Frontier is, and that you know your way around Frontier tables, wptexts, and outlines. The earlier tutorial is good for that.

Also, the earlier tutorial is full of "teasers" intended as incentives for you to start writing your own scripts with UserTalk! It helps greatly, in learning a thing, to have some further goal as a reason for learning it.

Gone Scriptin'

An old saying, sometimes wrongly attributed to Thoreau, runs: "Give a man a fish and he eats for day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." In this tutorial we'll do both. UserTalk programming is our fish; we'll catch fish together, and then you'll know enough to be able to do all the fishing you want on your own.

The Frontier "learning curve" is much vaunted, but take a few steps along it and you've trampled it flat.

Writing Frontier scripts is fun, easy, and satisfying. Most important, it's very useful; the power is there, waiting for your needs and your imagination to grow to take advantage of it.

Let's go!