This is a good suggestion, I will incorporate it.

Also, I will repeat my suggestion that we advertise only one build of Csound 
for release, either float or double. It doesn't have to be the same build on 
every OS.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Van Peteghem" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 4:21 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: WE Desperately NEED a Simple Installer/Build 
for Windowswith QuteCsound


> Dr. Richard Boulanger wrote:
>> ... a lot more than a sine wave.  (and by the way toot1 is my sinewave 
>> right?  I am being critical of my work too here.
>
> I actually think it's ideal for a first lesson, because it is really a 
> foundation. A bit like a program that prints "Hello world!", which is the 
> first example in many programming languages - not impressive at all, but 
> good as a first lesson. I think users understand that this is just the 
> begin.
>
> But Michael Gogins' tutorial starts by showing how to play an existing 
> example, by letting new users play Xanadu, that sure makes a good first 
> impression. Shortly after that it teaches how to create a sine wave. And 
> it's a great introduction to CSound in all.
>
> Unfortunately it took me some time before I found the tutorial by MG after 
> I installed CSound, because I first looked in the doc folder, where there 
> are two huge pdf's that are of no use to a beginner, they make you think 
> CSound is for Einsteins. Then I found the documentation in the folder 
> doc\manual, and as hobby web developer I was lucky to know that you better 
> start with index.html, and then I could finally start learning CSound. The 
> C++ library Boost has a index.html file in the top folder of their 
> distribution, which is simply a redirect to the main page of the 
> documentation, it would be nice to have that.
>
> -- 
>  Mark
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