Current Books on Max8 - Recommendations from the community

Hi,
I cannot give you a book recommendation, because I was on same search and did not find anything that satisfied my needs, by looking at the table of contents of the books I found (but this heavily depends on the individual technical background & preferences).

But I can give an alternative recommendation : first off, the tutorials on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@LearningMax/videos. These are short & precise and the title of the videos tell you what will be explained.

Short & precise, from my point of view is not about this "time is money" kind of thinking (time is a really interesting phenomenon, but for sure no manifestation of money ;-), but to be able to focus on one subject at a time ... and not waste mental resources to understand the "practical project" that is used to demonstrate the subject.

Sometimes its really helpful to see practical usecases and hence learn how to "patch a solution" (for this stage of learning the articles on the cycling 74 website are great), but I felt that this only makes sense, when I got a basic understand of the nature of Max, which is very unique.

The presenters have a great teaching style - each subject has a single Max Patcher in which its oberved and which you can dowload from the website they linked in the video subscriptions ... so you can experiment with the subject further more.

My recommendation : watch these videos (from the bottom up -) or use their table of contents website : https://tinapple.notion.site/e4e765b3c30d4f60ba71d8d810c28f1a?v=304cbe33a20f479db096995f83c615d5 until you feel you have some basic understanding of Max.

From then on, find yourself a little project, something simple but that resonates with you - that causes excitement and fulfillment when its done.

This enagement activates your automatic (subconscious) mental path finder abilities & strategies : its somthing for you, that is useful or joyful for you, so you will find a way to bring it to reality (okay digital reality, but neverthesless its something you can grab & operate with, even when it's only a mouse, touch or MIDI notes from a keyboard ;-).

And if you are in a need for further knowledge, search for promising tutorials in the YouTube channel mentioned above (maybe its helpful to let your attention & will to focuse not be drawn away by the alluring links that YouTube offers to you ... stay focus on this or a small set of YouTube channels you found useful).

If you did not find what you were looking for, build youself a little "exploration patch" that is focused on your question, that shows what you have so far and post your question here in the forum - describe what you are looking for and chance are you get help and a working answer.

hope this helps and inspires ;-).

cheers