Thinking of skipping the "Require" and "File attachments" sections - require because we really only need it for SimplexNoise which we'll introduce in part 4, and File attachments because I'm thinking of cutting the part 4 section on pulling colors from img in canvas for time - plus folks will be able to discover these through the intro documentation anyway, and i can always cover them ad-hoc in Q&A

OK I decided to definitely cut File attachments (from this and from part 4). Still on the fence about "Require", and now thinking that maybe "Imports" should go too, since we don't really use it in the exercises... but maybe it's still useful for them to know

You can include this if its a helpful reference, but its starting to feel like a lot of information before starting to make the art. I totally feel the importance of context, but for the tutorial it might make sense to just reference as need (e.g., once you're importing in a later notebook). You don't want people to tune out too early!

100%. I think I'm gonna skip both these sections and just link out to the rest of the docs/mention them ad-hoc as needed while they're doing the freeform exercises

I think this is getting too in the weeds, unless you really need to use this technique later.

+1

It feels confusing that these aren't the same inputs as above. Could you create a simpler example where you make the sliders, and just move the point around in the SVG (e.g., leaving out the coordinate marks in the corner?)

Yeah great call - especially since I'll skip imports, seeing the (lack of ) code like this might be confusing. Will just inline it

Having a link to the next notebook at the bottom would be helpful for navigation! Putting them all in a collection together will also help.

Totally! I do have them in a collection it's just not public yet - but even so links to the next step would still be a good call