[PD] teaching PD to newbies [WAS: Re: [GEM] GEM users request ]

[bbogart at ryerson.ca]

Fantastic idea,

I will be working on a few tutorials myself soon.

I suppose we should design a template for tutorials to keep things standard,

anyone with documentation experience have any suggestions? an initial thought would be following Chris's format with html plus example patches...

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>
Date: Sunday, April 27, 2003 11:28 am
Subject: RE: [PD] teaching PD to newbies [WAS: Re:  [GEM] GEM users request ]

> 
> It would be really great if we could combine all of the existing 
> tutorialsout there into one coherent, navigatible set of 
> tutorials.  Just like PDDP
> is becoming the central repository for docs, and the CVS is the 
> centralrepository for externals, there should also be a central 
> repository for
> tutorials.  
> 
> I think that the tutorials and PDDP should ultimately be part
> of the pure-data.sf.net CVS.  It makes working collaboratively much
> easier than if these files are spread out all over the net.  
> 
> Once this
> semester is over, and I get some breathing room, I am going to 
> make a
> "Getting Help" section for pure-data.org with links to all of the 
> docs and
> tutorials I can find.  If all of the docs and tutorials were
> interconnected and easily navigatible, that would be an amazing
> resource.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, David Sabine wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > This type of idea is inline with my eventual goal for the PDDP 
> files.> 
> > I have felt that it's very important to, aside from brief and 
> precise> explanations of the inlets/outlets and arguments of each 
> object, offer at
> > least one example of the object being used in a real and typical 
> situation.> I haven't written any complete tutorials, because I 
> haven't felt that it was
> > part of the PDDP mandate -- however, I've been able to offer some
> > 'real-world' examples of the objects in context.
> > 
> > As tutorials are written and completed I would like to provide 
> web links in
> > the PDDP to relevant tutorials.  For example, if an online 
> tutorial shows a
> > typical usage of [loadbang] (or anything else), then the 
> [loadbang].pd help
> > document should provide a link to that tutorial.
> > 
> > Obviously, [loadbang] is rather straight forward, but other help 
> files would
> > benefit a lot from online tutorials.
> > 
> > For those writing these wonderful tutorials - I would appreciate 
> if you
> > contact me if you feel any of the PDDP files deserve a link to your
> > tutorial.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Dave Sabine
> > 
> > p.s.: I like this thread a lot.  There have been some good ideas 
> - many of
> > which are possible, important, and will make PD a more valuable 
> and useable
> > tool for all users.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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