When I have been involved with beginning level workshops for both Processing and PD the approach Hans and hard off suggest is definitely the best. Miller taught a workshop here a while ago where he had the students build several small patches, each subsequent patch used some part of the previous as a starting point so students got some sense of continuity and learned a method by which they could continue to work after the class - it gave them a small toolbox to work with later. Golan Levin and Casey Reas each do the something similar to introduce Processing.
Greg
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
Yes, definitely, the way I teach now is have everyone in the workshop build a patch at the same time as I bulid it on the main screen. Then I go around and help everyone get it working. Then they all get it working at the end.
There are lots of materials you can use, here are two good resources: http://puredata.info/docs/workshops http://en.flossmanuals.net/puredata
I attached my favorite Pd hello world patch, it is a very simple ring modulator on your voice.
.hc
On Apr 17, 2009, at 7:58 AM, hard off wrote:
a really good way to practically demonstrate PD is to build a simple patch in front of people. maybe practice building that patch a couple of times before you do the presentation.
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