<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(I cc'ed the list since this might be of general interest)</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 14, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Peter Worth wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><BR>I just finished a decently flushed out sketch of an intro tutorial<BR>and I would love some feedback. Give it a shot: <BR><BR><A href="http://puredata.org/Members/hans/downloads/intro_tutorial_2006-04-12.zip">http://puredata.org/Members/hans/downloads/intro_tutorial_2006-04-12.zip</A><BR><BR>There is still a lot of material to cover, but this covers the <BR>foundations. Plus there should be more exercises.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> wow! this looks excellent. i'll be working my way through it next week some time i think. thanks.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've cranked out a bunch more, plus a nifty pager object which allows you to navigate the patches with forward/back buttons. I'll post an update soon, today hopefully.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">is there anything in there on data structures? thats what i'll be looking for soon.<BR> <BR> pete.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px">I won't have time to do a data structures tutorial any time soon, but there are some basic things here:<BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><A href="http://puredata.org/docs/tutorials/">http://puredata.org/docs/tutorials/</A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px">One thing that this process has gotten me thinking is that these tutorials should be broken up into a lot of smaller units. Something like 10-20 patches per unit. Then for a workshop, you would use a few units per day. </P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px">.hc</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">____________________________________________________________________________</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>- Bill Moyers</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>