I want to learn OpenScad! Anyone have any tips?

[truly_bent]

Okay. Got OpenJsCad to run locally (offline). The key was to find the right GitHub directory. You'd think there would only be one, but i somehow managed to find the wrong one first try.
1) Download zip file from here (right side of page).
2) Unzip onto your hard drive. I chose to unzip just off my root, but i'm pretty sure it doesn't matter where you put it.
3) Using Firefox or Chrome (shown below), open (ctrl 'O') and find the index.html file from the package. Double click.
4) Have fun...



Note the "file:///C:/OpenJsCad/index.html" address in the upper left corner. I dumped our ridged_beams.scad test file into it and it worked exactly as advertised.

In the course of this i did install the Java script interpreter Node.js, which turned out to be unnecessary. I may just play around with it anyway. I've always had a yen to study me some Java

(Edit: Not sure yet whether having Node.js installed is necessary or not. Someone else has to confirm the above steps to be sure)