On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 03:06:59PM +0200, Alberto Alassio wrote:
Hi guys this is my first thread because I've download Chuck just yesterday night and I'm trying to make something with this today (yes we can!).
Of course you can! Most people turn language into sound and meaning from a very young age. Can't be that hard ;-)
Really nice world! I read something from the manual ( the beginning tutorial) and also downloaded chuck pages where objects and other things about language are written. The question is : how can I understand every single line of Chuck?
That's a rather broad question, great. My take; Start with the examples that came with your download, I particularly like the "otf...." series of examples in the "examples" dir. Together they form a techno song with a implied invitation to remix. Change stuff, the worst that can happen is that it crashes. If you make a mess; re-download and make a backup this time. Those cover a wide range of topics in a deceptively fun way, Many things can be understood through practical experimentation. Then there is the website that has documentation and the manual pdf that has explanations on the way it works and very useful appendices. Those can serve to explain bits that appear tricky or as a way to look for new interesting things as you start to elaborate on the given material on your own. This is, of course, a somewhat scattershot -if fun- method, and it could be that you'd like a higher-scope look at the how and why. For that I recommend this; http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gewang/thesis.html That's Ge's Thesis and explains the method behind the madness. All of those will at some point fail to satisfy, maybe some bit of info got misplaced, maybe you overlooked something that seemed like a detail at first. Then you send a mail to this list, explaining where and how you ran into a issue. Preferably you'd paste the most simple code that causes the issue and explain clearly what you were hoping for or expecting. Then we (you get a free scene with your free software) try to figure out what the issue is. Everyone who could answer a question like this got to that point by experimenting and by asking questions; don't be shy, if you tried to look on your own and couldn't find it it's worth a mail. Most importantly; have fun, that's what it's there for, as far as I'm concerned. Yours, Kas.