Resources for my audio visual workshop for pure data, GEM, else & alien.
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Please do not experiment with pure data with headphones on - you can damage your ears.
Always use speakers or your headphones away from your ears - until you are supremely confident it's safe.
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If you have photo sensitive epilepsy be careful creating strobe effects.
If you look directly into a projector you can blind yourself.
If you have any trouble, don't worry as computers have internal state, and even a single integer (whole number) can be infinite.
That means there is an infinity of ways software can go wrong and one of the skills you build up as a software programmer / developer is the knack.
The knack is an elusive intuition that you build up over time, getting upset, sad or stressed scares away this energy.
Like a zen master appreciate the exquisite mathematical improbability of anything you build actually working at all and relax.