This is great! I'm learning to read sheet music and play the piano at the same time and have found the same problem: I'm just memorising the music, not _reading_it.
Just this weekend I tried jalmus, but couldn't get it running and ended up trying to write something kinda similar to this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/philip_roberts/status/61775984704... Mine just does one note at a time though and I didn't know about webmidi, so was using node with electron shell for midi access, definitely gonna switch it over to webmidi now though, thanks!
That's interesting given there's no licensing certainly on my video :) I will be asking scotlandjs to update the Vimeo page to ensure there's a Creative Commons non-commercial license specified as I'm not _super_ excited about people charging for access to my work.
That is certainly not our intent either (and I'm certainly not charging for this page). What we change people for is the ability to upload content (we can do that, just not done in this case), group the content (uploaded and elsewhere), and distribute (link a web page or send email). All the videos are still hosted from their original location (vimeo and youtube in this base).
If you want me to remove something, email me at chrisb(AT)unitymg.com and I'll get rid of them.
To add another resource to the list, I gave an introductory talk to bacon.js and FRP last year which has similar diagrams to these which I animated with d3 if anyone'a interested: http://vimeo.com/m/68987289
With regards to "major version 4" we are doing our best to follow semver, where backwards incompatible changes require a bump in the major version.
So yes and no, this is a work in progress (what isn't) and we will constantly be pushing to make the docs better. We've been working hard over the last couple of weeks to get this into some form of a publicly releasable state, but yes it's not perfect :)
If you want to help us out, feel free to submit PRs or issues on github. The main site is at http://github.com/ampersandjs/ampersandjs.com while the API references are generated from their individual readmes, all available in that github org.
I do often submit PRs for occasional typos in docs, but I don't really feel like copy-editing a whole README, which is what's required here. I'm not trying to be difficult, just honest.
I appreciate the use of semver, but I don't think the intent is to go through three major versions in as many days...
Thanks, it was actually the READMEs on GitHub that I was referring to originally. I'd bet those don't get the same level of care the website does.
I'm really not trying to be annoying, but I'd point out there was a week there in April where ampersand-state jumped from 0.5.0 to 3.0.1. Perhaps it's just that the initial decision to one-dot was premature and now you're locked in by semver?
Well generally with semantic versioning, you only get to major version 1 once you have a piece of software that is feature-complete and production-ready. Changes in the API don't require a major version bump if you're not at 1.0 yet.
I am digging thru the logs now to find out - early signs indicate memory or resource leak in the api and it then silently crashed (well, silently from my side - i'm the Ops person for &yet)
I read the book myself recently, and I can highly recommend it if you feel that you sit anywhere on the introvert spectrum.
It covers the "science" behind introversion, how introverts vs. extroverts think and respond to stimuli and neurochemicals. (I put science in quotes as I don't know enough about the brain to know how scientific the discussion is but I found it useful and interesting nonetheless).
It then goes on to look at how this affects introverts' interactions with themselves, others, and in social situations - with some thoughts and guidance on how to better integrate into an "extroverted world" without just trying to be more extroverted.
I have definitely found it helpful and it's made me think a lot about who I am and how I react to life as an introvert.
The best tip I've been given for practice is to actually sit with a piece of paper and write out your thought process whilst solving these little problems.
It's feels a bit laborious at first, but I find it makes for much more effective practice than getting to the answer in a roundabout way, and not really knowing how you get there.
As in hackerblues' comment, sitting and explicitly writing: "If I write a 5 in this cell then the column will contain two 5s. Therefore, this cell can't contain a 5." is more effective than bumbling around and just getting it right, particularly when practicing with simple examples.
Just this weekend I tried jalmus, but couldn't get it running and ended up trying to write something kinda similar to this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/philip_roberts/status/61775984704... Mine just does one note at a time though and I didn't know about webmidi, so was using node with electron shell for midi access, definitely gonna switch it over to webmidi now though, thanks!