[chuck-users] The ChucK Method Book

Nic Freed beatthefinalboss at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 21:22:00 EDT 2010


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 at 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 at 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.
>>
>> --
>> Zed A. Shaw
>> http://zedshaw.com/
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