Tutorials TODO!

[lee2sman]

This website could use some more tutorials!

The Processing and p5.js tutorials are generally licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and could be adapted. For example, there are 8 basic getting started tutorials on the p5.js site.

Some additional example tutorials that could be developed pretty quickly:

• Intro to Lua and L5, maybe adapting or splitting up the current L5 for Processing/p5.js users tutorial.
• Designing sketches for exhibitions
• Intro to OOP in L5 and Lua
• Breaking out of L5 - Making os.execute() calls
• Could pull out a looping tutorial from the for page
• Intro to tables (arrays and objects, etc) tutorials pulled out from the table page in the reference

And open to others!

[lee2sman]

Began porting some of the p5.js examples to here in 01aa5c7
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[lee2sman]

Just added an 11 part A Complete Introduction to Programming with L5, with many parts liberally adapted from Happy Coding tutorials, in 7468996

[lee2sman]

Need detailed step by step text and video tutorials:

• How to install L5 on a Mac
• How to install L5 on Windows

I am assuming Linux types can get it figure out on their own but not a bad idea to have step by step instructions anyway.

A little down the road it would be nice to have:

• How to install on Android
• How to install on iOS
• How to install on PostmarketOS

[lee2sman]

• How to compile a L5 sketch as an executable
  • based on this Love2d wiki article on Game Distribution, which explains many ways to package the game for different systems.
• How to run on old computers / "How to keep your code running for many years"

[lee2sman]

• tutorial on OOP! - could be a walkthrough of the robot sketch?

[lee2sman]

• Tweetcart Tutorial for L5. I think it might be nice to have more resources on this, EVEN though tweetcart coding is not a beginner/learner activity, it is a fun challenge for intermediate and advanced artist-programmers. And I think you learn a lot from the process. There are lots of resources relating to Pico-8 on the subject. Maybe there are some open source resource that could be adapted, or new info can be written. Would be nice to also connect this to 10print and BASIC one-liners from type-in magazines of the 1980s.

Here's some resources about tweetcarts:

• Pico-8 Tweetcart studies - licensed public domain/ cc0
• Demoscene Basics from a Basic Demoscener - cc0
• Minifying tweetcarts
• Optimizing character count for Tweetcarts
• Pico-8 size optimization for tweetcarts

[Nitish-bot]

I would like to take up the tweetcart tutorial for L5

[lee2sman]

I would be happy to have you write a draft version @Nitish-bot Please write in your own words and feel free to use the above-mentioned resources. Make sure to give credits to any adapted resources. You could also reference Taper by Bad Quarto, an example of "an online literary magazine for small computational pieces", which allows generally only 2KB of javascript for their published works.