User Documentation PF

General Introduction to Forth

• Some background information
  • What is Forth?
• The basics
  • Starting to learn Forth: syntax, stack, postfix, help and errors
  • Creating words, using an editor and documenting
  • Some basic operations: if else then, for loops, variables and map

Working with Packet Forth

• The PF interpreter
  • What is the console ?
• Using a text editor
  • Writing and loading PF files
  • Quick nano mini intro
  • Quick vim mini intro
  • Quick Emacs mini intro
• Interacting with PF
  • using the keyboard as interface (hotkey-mode)
  • Realtime Interaction (interpreter + static files)?
  • the Live Coding loop?

Drawing mode

• Basics
  • Drawing a square
  • More squares and a bit of Forth
  • Even more squares
  • Using transparent textures
  • Polygons
  • Circles
• Turtle
  • A simple Turtle vocabulary
  • Turtle stories

Animation mode

• Basics
  • Animation basics
  • Using vectors
• 3D
  • 3D basics
  • 3D light

Packet Forth and the rest of the world

• Importing and exporting files in PF
  • Taking a screenshot
• Using pipes
• Using Mjpeg tools
• Using Open Sound Control
  • OSC basics
• Using the build-in client - server system
  • client-server basics
• Using the PF external for Pure Data