[Fluxus] 1st steps w/ Fluxus, a bit difficult

[Gáspár Hajdu]

Hi.
browsing the archives of this mailing list also helps me sometimes :)
I would advise it if u get stuck, as most of the users faced - i guess -
same difficulties and asked about the same things in the beginning.
cheers.
Gas


2012. április 9. 22:02 Kassen írta, <signal.automatique at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:44:48PM +0200, Janis Geiger wrote:
> > Hey
>
> Hey Janis!
>
>
> Since your questions are closely related I'll try to answer them in
> one swoop. Fluxus is mostly Scheme (particularly "Racket", a Scheme
> implementation) + a set of custom functions allowing you to use Scheme
> to address the OpenGL implementation as well as the other features
> (audio the physics engine, etc).
>
> Racket has a great online help at
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/index.html
>
> Our own stuff *should* all be documented under (help fluxus-fun) where
> "fluxus-fun" is the function that you are curious about. Where it
> isn't that is a problem in the documentation and it should be fixed.
> All of those should come with brief examples. Here and there the
> fluxus documentation does lack parts or has bugs, if you find
> something like that reporting it would be helpful.
>
> As for learning the language; learning Fluxus is essentially the same
> as learning Scheme, syntax-wise. If that is how you learn there are
> many texts about Scheme either online or available as books. You can
> also start with the Fluxus examples and see what happens when you edit
> bits. Once you feel you'd like to add new things to the example you
> could try some appealing looking things on the racket site.
>
> Either way, if you get stuck; shout and we'll see how to get you
> un-stuck. Also remember that if something looks extremely strange then
> it might be that you don't yet understand it but it could also be that
> there is simply a bug; in that case I'd shout too, instead of staring
> at it.
>
> Happy hacking!
> Kas.
>
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