Essential Max/MSP/Jitter Objects

Beginning Max users see the manual with a couple hundred max objects and get intimidated. But this is like trying to learn English by looking at the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary. In fact", most of those 200 objects are special-purpose, or could be programmed with a few more "primitive" objects. If someone really takes the time to thoroughly understand a small group of max objects, then they are well on their way to successful programming.