[chuck-users] Begin the beguine

[Alberto Alassio]

Thank you very much for your answer. i've just downloaded that thesis you
were talking about .
I will come back with other questions!

Danke Schon

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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