[PD] "Structured" dataflow?

[marius schebella]

a book, or at least we should improve the tutorial situation. is there a 
google summer of documentation? collecting/creating/restructuring the 
tutorials section (wiki.blender.org is a good example) - I still would 
like to see this closely related to pdpedia.
tutorials - forums - mailinglist (incl. archive) - pdpedia - gallery - 
other resources;
there *must* be a better way to structure these.
marius.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> This all makes me think that we should write a Pd book that covers  
> things like good form.  Perhaps we could make it a decentralized  
> collaborative effort with strange consensus decisionmaking to mirror  
> the Pd community :D
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Jan 12, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 11:29 -0800, Dudley Brooks wrote:
>>> Can anyone direct me to articles on constructing clear, modular,
>>> non-spaghetti patches in pd or other visual dataflow languages?
>>> Especially if the articles derive their recommendations from  
>>> theoretical
>>> analysis (as with the investigations that led to structured  
>>> programming
>>> in imperative languages), rather than just rules-of-thumb -- although
>>> the latter are useful also.
>> You might find this document interesting if not helpful:
>>
>> http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/13474
>>
>>> Or is some amount of spaghetti unavoidable in dataflow languages,
>>> perhaps because it is inherent in the situation being modeled, rather
>>> than being an artifact of the language?
>> Personally, I find that there is an idiomatic way to use most  
>> languages,
>> which is congruous with the way the language is designed. Of course,
>> people may want to deliberately subvert this relationship, but I guess
>> that's different from using something in an unidiomatic way and not
>> being aware of the fact.
>>
>> Although, I think Frank wrote these in a non-didactic spirit, I find
>> Franks 'dogmas' very helpful for clear and idiomatic Pd patching:
>>
>> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-04/049447.html
>>
>> I have also found Frank's 'footils' collection of abstractions to  
>> be an
>> excellent source of idioms and examples of how to make clear and
>> coherent patches.
>>
>> I must stress that I'm not suggesting that this is the 'correct'  
>> way to
>> patch, I just personally find it to be clear, elegant and spaghetti
>> avoiding!
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> -- 
>> www.postlude.co.uk
>>
>>
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