Raistlin Magere wrote:
Do me a favor, let me know everyone what you think of the text-based tutorials on Bill's blog and in my own 01-cell-basics.lisp (and there is more if you want to look at the regression tests in the cells-test subdirectory or go to my web site and grab some old, obsolete PDFs).
I liked your 01-cell-basics.lisp as it gave a first feeling of what cells is about also I liked Bill's one as it introduced the idea of filtering the values before using them (something that obviously needs doing in a real world problem but that I had no idea, nor I would have expected, you had implemented).
You're the second person who liked synapses. That came up when I did a physics sim of a pendulum and I needed to optimize a little. Lots of potential in those little critters, for expressiveness as well as performance. User-definable as well.
However as side problem with Bill's example I never got to see the status of the pump on closed from a def-c-echo call until when at the end I called (status *motor1*) and everything updated. It wasn't clear if the reason was the filtering or something else.
OK. As I roll out the tutorials I will solicit feedback form everyone to refine them. I did do that with 01-cell-basics, but it was just one reviewer.
The problem with 01-cell-basic is that it is indeed quite basic so things like drifters are not introduced, nor filtering, nor any other goodies you are currently hiding in your source code.
<heh-heh> I should have known that early adopters would want the crash course and not the gradual buildup to razzle-dazzle stuff.
So yeah they are good but only to get a first inkling of the potential of your system. However I haven't looked at your test directory in detail yet nor at the other pdfs on your site.
yeah, there's good stuff sprinkled all over, including in the cells-test regression suite. Gotta pull it all into one place and add a reference.
Side Note: in your most recent release you still have a `while' ..
Damn, I had a feeling I had done that. Now if I only new CVS! lesse:
Soon.
that is incompatible with acl (I replaced it with acl:while although you mentioned that changing it to a do will make it portable) which is present in the data-flow source file.
Regarding linking cells to LW, well I have got a copy of LW Personal installed on my computer as I wanted to give it a look however after having started it I was already missing my acl (although older version).
yep. may I can featurize the examples for ACL and MCL, too, since both are already done. I'd just have to bury them under a common framework.
Well linking Cells tutorial to Cello (and ACL and LW) I would like that though I appreciate that not using Linux I am not entirely impartial ;) However I was just wondering is there not a demo of ACL running on Linux? and if so is the GUI linkages so different that Cello would not run on it?
I am pretty sure they have not yet ported Common Graphics, their CAPI, to Linux.
kenny