[PD] some thinkings about Pure-data

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 14:18 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Zitat von Olaf Matthes <olaf.matthes at gmx.de>:
>
>> But, yes, of course, we need example patches showing how to use the
>> objects. And, me culpa, I sometimes do use Pd's example patches as a
>> starting point for my own stuff.]
>
> But we all do! IMO Pd's example patches are a wonderful introduction 
> to Pd and
> sound synthesis in general. I remember, though, that some of them were 
> over
> my head when I started using Pd (some still are) but I can come back 
> to them
> and still learn something new. Also people should really read the 
> html-docs.
> But it's a known fact: Users don't read documentation. And developers 
> don't
> write it. :)
>

What I think works best for most people are the working patches that 
are also tutorials.  The Pure Data Documentation Project are great 
examples of this.  But some more developed tutorials would be very 
helpful as well.  There are some out there, I just got to get them 
organized in the new pure-data.org...

.hc