Just wanted to let you know I am still reading, and this book is amazing, and should be sold for megabux$$$ ^_^
But seriously, it would be a dream come true for you to release a book like this for chuck. The severe lack of material on ChucK as a language has led me to read through a large manual, using it as my only source of information, and not a reference guide, as it was intended to be. The manual is a terrible choice for newbies to programming and audio synthesis because:
a. It is very dry and includes almost no examples
b. It assumes prior programming knowledge and understanding of many concepts in music synthesis as well
For these two reasons alone, I must urge you, PLEASE make this book. It is very sad that a language as amazing language like chuck lacks a comprehensive guide for learning the language, from a complete beginner's point of view.
Thank you so much for considering! :D
--Nic
PS When I finish the book, I will let you know which examples I found most helpful, and which I think should be included in ChucK's book, if you are to write it. It may take a while, because of school, but I will get through it soon enough :)
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Nic Freed
<beatthefinalboss@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks a lot, awesome to meet you :D
I will let you know once I get further into the book which exercises I found the most helpful, I will be happy to help :)
--Nic
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Zed A. Shaw
<zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 06:12:33PM -0500, Nic Freed wrote:
> Oh my gosh, I am reading that book now! You did an amazing job, and I am
> learning tons, thank you so much :)
Glad you like it. It will definitely help you with ChucK, so let me
know what exercises you found the most useful. Also let me know if you
get stuck at anything and I'll try to help.
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