I have used Max/Msp/Jitter for some time but would love to see PD grow and grow. When I first looked at PD several years ago, GEM was still pretty funky to work with and Jitter was solid.
But Max/Msp/Jitter is not so easy to teach. I have tried myself and another long time user/object maker is currently teaching it here in Tokyo and told me it was a lot more difficult than it seems. What is huge here is Processing. They recently launched the first book about Processing (in Japanese no less) and had a launch demo/ event that was completely packed out. There are now several (English) books on Processing available too: http://www.amazon.com/Processing-Programming-Handbook-Designers- Artists/dp/0262182629/ http://www.amazon.com/Processing-Creative-Coding-Computational- Foundation/dp/159059617X/ But yeah, it is simple to learn, it's sauce is open, it's documentation is great, you can graduate to programming in Java, it plays well with Arduino... But then, it's a bit slow for computer vision, it's interface is quirky, you actually have to write real 'code' rather than move cool blocks round screen... ! _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
