Chuck Live Coding

About

ChucK Versioned Live Coding (lc) facilities live coding within ChucK by providing easy to use git versioning.

http://ablelemon.co.uk/chuck/chuck-live-coding/

lc is

• Git versioning of ChucK
• Shortened commands
• Designed for terminal livecoding

Requires

lc requires a current install of ChucK.

lc has been tested on OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 and Arch linux.

Manual

Setup

Install git on local host of versioned files.

$ cd project-folder

$ git init

First time git users would be advised to read the Offical Git Tutorial

Use

As files are created they need to be added to the versioning

$ git add file-name

Also we need to start the ChucK VM

$ chuck –loop

For one window Chuck

$ chuck –loop &

Run ChucK file

$ lc file-name.ck

This will add the file to ChucK and then report the git submission report.

To replace the running Chuck code

$ lc file-name.ck shred-id

Shred id can be established via

$ chuck ^