Sonic Pi: open-source live-coding programming environment for making music and teaching programming

What it supplies: Sonic Pi is described as a new kind of musical instrument: instead of strumming strings, you write code live. It is a complete open-source programming environment originally designed to explore and teach programming concepts in schools through creating new sounds. The README says it has evolved into a performance-ready live coding instrument suitable for professional artists and DJs. Useful for: - Learn programming concepts through making sounds, in classrooms or on your own. - Perform music by live coding. - Use school resources from Raspberry Pi and Mehackit that the README links. First action: - Visit the project website for information and the latest releases. - Use the built-in tutorial, which has been translated into several languages though some translations are incomplete. - To build from source, follow the guide for Linux, Mac, Windows, Raspberry Pi or the web. Prerequisites and limits: This README gives no system requirements or version in its own text; build requirements are in the separate per-platform guides it links. - Some translations of the tutorial are marked as not yet done in the README's status table. - The README is an overview; licence terms and build requirements are in other files. The README calls Sonic Pi open source and links a LICENSE.md file, but does not state the licence terms in its own text, so read that file before reuse or redistribution. Sounds and music you make carry their own rights. Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run and no sound was made. Based on README text only; build guides, LICENSE.md and the website were not read. No install or run was made. Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/d1393a06266f74dc216bfd8a7e9a8eb7135b4941/README.md ; 8362 bytes ; sha256 3e253e98aae2fdd895efb55887f97b835a17da7d52dbd299b6f4dd713b7a47d2 ; 10 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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