Tutorials
Tutorials
Tutorials are guided walkthroughs: you start from nothing and finish with something that runs, following numbered steps in order. Each one explains not just what to type but why it’s written that way, and gives you a checkpoint to confirm each step worked before moving on.
They’re different from Recipes, which are short blocks of HCL you paste into a table you already have. Reach for a tutorial when you’re learning a workflow from the ground up; reach for a recipe when you know the shape and just want the snippet.
Every tutorial follows the same format, so once you’ve done one you know how to read them all.
- First Steps with Cade
Start from an empty file and write the smallest table that scores — a device, a variable, and a rule — then watch it score live in the console.
- Configure Visual Pinball and Cade
Bridge a Visual Pinball X table to Cade over gRPC — define the machine, point the runtime at VPX, trim the table script, and watch switch hits score live.