The missing chapter, for non-programmers

[lennart]

Installation gets everyone up and running, Creating Patterns explains how to create patterns itself and the tidal DSL. The Reference is a function reference which show examples of a certain param or function in action.

However, for most people without a programming background, this does not help to make real use of all the functions, as the concepts on how to combine them, and the concepts that lie underneath (Haskell, functional programming) are not known for them.

We need a new chapter that will explain the concepts behind patterns, params and functions without all the techie talk I guess.

Suggestions for names and a rough outline would be great, before we dive in and add it to the docs.

[yaxu]

Is the tutorial any use as a starting point for this? https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/blob/master/tutorial/tutorial.md

[kindohm]

I think that tutorial doc is really good. Curious to know what other Tidal
beginners think of it. I'll try and round up some feedback.

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Is the tutorial any use as a starting point for this?
https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/blob/master/tutorial/tutorial.md

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[lpil]

Ah, I didn't realise there was a tutorial. I'd love to see this incorporated into the site. Shall I make a pull request doing this?

[yaxu]

That'd be good! thanks

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Ah, I didn't realise there was a tutorial. I'd love to see this
incorporated into the site. Shall I make a pull request doing this?

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http://yaxu.org/

[lpil]

I just had a go at this, but I can't work out the system for adding sections to a page. What conventions do I need to follow for this to work? I'm clearly missing something here.

[lennart]

ok, this sounds like I should document the documentation which is clearly not self-explanatory (this is wonky…). Sorry!

Mainly, you have to edit _data/chapters.yml. I am currently updating the README to explain this concept, as this is not obvious.

[lennart]

@lpil this is rough, but should be helping: https://github.com/lennart/tidalcycles.github.io/tree/docdoc

[lpil]

Hm, I thought I was doing that, more or less. I'll try again tomorrow.

Thanks. :)

[lennart]

Can you share your code, if you've forked the repo?

[lpil]

I kept tweaking things and made a bit of a mess, so I wiped the branch. I'll share tomorrow if I'm still stumped. Cheers.

[lennart]

@lpil are you going to be doing this? If not just shout! might be nice to have it ready for 0.9.

[lpil]

Ah, I forgot about this. Realistically I don't have time, sorry. Would be great to have this though :)

[sfradkin]

What concepts are missing that we'd like added? I can draft something for this as I add 0.9 function documentation.