Hello. I’m new to Csound and very familiar with sound design. Starting off was more difficult than it should be due to the way information is presented. The opcode examples in the Csound reference manual are quite confusing to an educated beginner that has no coding experience. The way the examples are presented are quite a bit different from the way I write code. I can look at examples now with a good understanding of how to code Csound and still get confused by the examples.
I learned to write Csound in about two weeks and started cranking out plug ins. Ten finished so far in less than 60 days. Not basic plug ins either. Some are 1000 lines of code and have more than 50 controls. I’m going to keep going until I run out of ideas for plug ins.
At some point, I might write up a “How to Learn Csound the Fast Way” tutorial someday. It would be only one page long and would make it a lot easier for people to learn Csound.