[chuck-users] Begin the beguine

[Alberto Alassio]

I was trying to open the otf examples you told me and I got a question
about period.
what does

T - (now % T) => now;

means?
When we just make something like a sineosc and we want it to sound for 2
seconds we just write
2::second => now;
and when we make it start it sounds for 2 seconds from now till now. RIght?
So why wouldn't must be the same for period?


What am I supposed to do?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Alberto Alassio <alberto.alassio at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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