Hallo, Chuckk Hubbard hat gesagt: // Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
On 8/7/06, Tas Pas tprotopgr@yahoo.gr wrote:
Keeping track of what is said in the current list (even if I don't understand a s~~t) helped me (and is helping me, cause I'm a begginer) see what pd has to offer.
I do that too. I used to ignore subjects on here that I didn't understand, but lately I started opening those mails just to see, even if it's about something I don't use, and it gradually expands my concept of Pd. Besides, experts love answering newbie questions in general. It makes you feel... altruistic.
Ah, so that's the reason! ;)
During the Pd Summer School in London some people had a little pub talk about if it would be a good idea to split off a more newbie oriented list. In my opinion it's not such a good idea, though, for several reasons. One is: How to seperate newbie problems from expert problems? Some issues have very deep reasons, for example the message system of Pd (float-, symbol-, meta-messages etc.) generally gives newbies the same headaches as it gives more advanced users.
Then if we had a pure newbie list, would the experts actually read it, too? And if they do, they may be inclined to spread their expert knowledge there as well so that the list may not be too different from pd-list in the end. If they don't, then newbies would never learn from the experts, which is important as well.
A kind of thing in between may be the Pd forum~ at: http://puredata.hurleur.com/
Several of the subscribers to this list don't participate a lot on this forum because they don't like web-based forums, while others do regular posts there as well. But if you want to escape Matju, Hans and me, this would be the place to go. ;)
Ciao
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