Luke D wrote: > this floated up on digg: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070722-new-educational-tool-makes-programming-like-playing-with-lego-bricks.html
Another slightly similar project is Sprog <http://sprog.sf.net/>, by Grant McLean of Wellington, although that is getting a long way from audio-visual data processing. Regarding this thread in general, I can't say much about programs in the PD genre, because I personally don't find them useful. Almost nobody does, as far as I can tell. This is not to diss them: they are just more specialised than is sometimes claimed. Anyway, two observations: 1. In the version I heard, the history has this twist: Max itself pre-dates PD, but MSP is a port of some PD patches, so Max/MSP is its own grandchild. 2. Whatever VUW decides to use, the worst criteria would be "what everyone is using now". Even if some student was ever to use the software again, and had not investigated other options on their own, the typical use cases are not ones where an "industry standard" matters. A pub, for example, doesn't select a band on the brand of their instruments, and it won't for a VJ either. The course ought to focus on the transferable insight that this kind of piping tool can give you, and not on the intricacies of any particular implementation. Perhaps ideally you'd you teach them all at once. douglas _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
