[PD] translate the Start Here! page

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>; Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Cc: Pd List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] translate the Start Here! page
> 
> OK, no need to fight. This is about a version of Pd-extended that has been a 
> very long time coming, that had many issues to resolve, that went offline and 
> was unavailable at the start of the workshops I teach. I also can't get my 
> students to download a version of Pd-extended that isn't finished and 
> won't run on their machine. This is their first experience of programming. 
> They'll give up straight away!

Of course.  I'm just giving you a beginner's perspective;  it's my own
memory of that perspective that drives me to work on tools which are currently
only marginally useful to me personally.  The supermajority of discontent
among your students tells me that this perspective hasn't changed much.
By far, that is currently the fault of the software-- the documentation is
currently too slim and core pd building blocks (and interface) too crude
for the question "how do I find more objects" to be anything like an ancillary
question.

A static out-of-date list is better than nothing, but as far as potential dev
energy I'd really rather see that put into core docs like the ones listed
on the bug tracker, which are extremely lacking.  That FLOSS list will hopefully
become obsolete, but the help docs won't-- even if they're dropped from
Pd-extended they're still publicly available.

-Jonathan