I did try learning uxn a year ago (or maybe two??) while on holiday for two weeks. So I read pretty much all the material on your site, kept the cute zzine at hand, and also got myself the tutorial ebook. I was able to follow the tutorial up to like Day 3 or 4, then got lost a little bit.
I guess my main problem was that I was trying to learn it essentially on my phone, not on a desktop PC, so until things stayed in the CLI I was able to follow everything while SSHing to my VPS; but once things got graphical (and more complex) I wasn't able to try things right away.
In my mind, I would really love for Uxn to become similar to... _why's Shoes for Ruby. He published a funky little book with loads of graphics and that was literally ENOUGH to learn everything and start coding. I would like to be able to see the code, fully commented, but also with a preview (even drawings!) of the result, and possibly in some cases even stack contents. Granted, Shoes and Ruby are MUCH higher level than Uxn and Uxntal...
For me, the killer docs for Uxn would be an expansion to the Zine, a fully graphical book that can *also* act as full reference and comprehensive tutorial. All in one place.
Hell if you and R E K (npub1z2c…laft) and others started a Kickstarter or similar for that, I'd definitely contribute!
H3RALD
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