| Hi, since this list seems to be concerned mainly with technical issues, I'm not sure wether my questions fit here, but I'm interested in the musical/technical background of the people on the list. How did you get involved with SC? What kind of coding experience did you have when you started out? How did you learn the basics? What were your first projects? I'll start with myself: Like Jerome, I first got exposed to programming through web stuff like PHP and JavaScipt I did at work. Being mainly a musician (guitar player, singer), when I found SC I was immediately fascinated by its power and the promise of freedom to create exactly the musical inviromments I was envisioning. But I didn't know much more about programming than processing web forms and looking up stuff in a database. Nevertheless I plunged into it, worked trough the tutorials, wrote a lot of really terrible code, wasted many many many hours, got overwhelmed and frustrated. So I took a break of about a year. One day I fired up SC again, had an idea and the first experience repeated itself. I took another break and now I'm back. This time, with a clearer vision of what I want to do. For now, I'm leaving all of the dsp stuff alone and try to get to grips with SCLang. My little LPD8 step sequencer is getting more powerful every day and although I still think my classes suck, I'm getting stuff to work. I've given up on the idea of organizing my learning. I learn what I need to know to get the stuff I want to do done and don't worry about what I don't know (which in the case of SC is a hell of a lot). Cheers, Axel On 18 Sep, 2010, at 19:53 , Jerome Covington wrote:
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