Cycling '74 has a fabulous set of tutorials under the rubric of " 20Objects." Unlike the 20Concepts curriculum, which starts very macro (with the Vizzie objects for video manipulation) but is ultimately incomplete, the lessons for 20Objects start at a very basic level (with the button object) and follow all the way through to Jitter objects. Here's the complete list:

• 20Objects Curriculum Overview (Done)
• 01 - The Button Object (Done)
• 02 - The Number Box (Done)
• 03 - The Message Box (Done)
• 04 - The Pack Object
• 05 - The Metro Object
• 06 - The Random Object
• 07 - The Noteout Object
• 08 - The Patcher Object
• 09 - The Scale Object
• 10 - The Pattr Object
• 11 - The Table Object
• 12 - The Cycle~ Object
• 13 - The Buffer~ Object
• 14 - The SVF~ Object
• 15 - The Line~ Object
• 16 - The jit.qt.movie Object
• 17 - The jit.matrix Object
• 18 - The jit.brcosa Object
• 19 - The jit.xfade Object
• 20 - The jit.gl.render Object

It turns out that while these all look like short lessons, they're rather time-consuming if you do all of the steps. As such, I only got through the first three of the 20 lessons (and the introduction) before I had to go work on something else. So far, they do extremely elementary things – this is a button, this is a number box – but I'm learning things I didn't know and I'm better for it.

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Completed:

• Cycling '74 20Objects: Lesson 01, The Button Object; Lesson 02, The Number Box; Lesson 03, The Message Box; and Lesson 04, The Pack Object (60 exercises)
• Patches can be downloaded from http://db.tt/GBYLb0vY