There is a pretty good beginner's tutorial here (you can view it online or download a PDF version):

http://pd.iem.at/pdwiki/index.php?PdTutorial

I'm new to PD as well, so I'm still playing around with the examples quite a lot. That would be my suggestion for trying to familiarize yourself with PD (or any programming language). Go over examples as much as you can, tweak them around and see what does what. Try combining examples together and see what happens. There are tons of examples in the Docs folder that come with PD, and you can always copy-paste them into your projects. Also, a great trick is to right-click (control-click on Mac) on any PD object and select "help". This will bring up another PD window with some instructions on how to use that object. If you right-click on an empty area on the PD canvas and select "help", it will bring up a new window with a glossary of PD objects.

Hope that helps some.

--Josh

From: smoerk smoerk@gmx.de To: MchZanes2@aol.com CC: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: Re: [PD] a simple example to get me started/newbie Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:08:36 +0100

did you check the "compute audio" checkbox?

MchZanes2@aol.com wrote:

...

           Hello. I have no backround in programming, so trying to 

get past the audio test has been frustrating. I heard the test tones and the white noise in that test; I'm able to get the command prompt up (run C:pd/bin/pd.exe) as well as open up a new file from the main window. My ISP recognizes TCP/IP as a possible internet connection, so THAT appears to be turned on, though I'm "dial-up"; I keep reading and re-reading the manual and all relevant info. from other sites but nowhere can I find someone with a "simple example" to give a "wah-newbie" like me something to sink his teeth into. (If the examples in doc\2.control examples thru 5.reference are supposed to "sound", then what EXACT procedure do I need to follow to get that to happen? The same for the examples in the main manual, I get no sound generated from these examples either, though test tones work).

           Any help is appreciated. Thanks.  My  OS is WinXP.

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