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grown much from the time and effort of its users, but it's typically only used by a certain kind of techie person. i really think that pd could
well face it pd is a programming language, how many programming languages are used by people that don't qualify as a "certain kind of techie person" ?
become more of a mainstream type of software in teaching, music production, and in art. this would only happen with a huge pouring-in of new users.
no, it happens when you start to teach it, make music with it or use it in your installations etc...
We use it a lot in our school
- to introduce basic programming concepts
- to present basic dsp theory
- showing how to hook up pd/gem/pdp and a bunch of shell, python, php scripts as a basis and a flexible framework for all sorts of media art projects.
regards,
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, CK wrote:
well face it pd is a programming language, how many programming languages are used by people that don't qualify as a "certain kind of techie person" ?
True. But: I would much rather practice Ligeti piano etudes than play with 'programming languages', but I daily program in Python, Scheme and XSP/Java, because I need to pay rent and because PD permeates everything I'd like to do in music. But it wasn't always the case, and a 'certain kind of techie person' can actually grow from a 'non-techie' person, with a little help from friends. Learning to program isn't the hard part.
The hard part is finding as tolerant a community as PD has.
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