How did I start?
(and I really did just start)
-
Bubblegum Love
(deferred shading in Nuke)
- My first good processing sketch
- Daniel Shiffman!
- My switch to Three JS
A Little Inspiration
Why Learn How to Program?
- Play God
- Be More Lazy
- Solving Puzzles is Fun
- It's A New Way to Think About Making Stuff
- You Owe It to the World
I owe it to the world?
- Most programmers can't make art, most artists can't code.
- Code isn't just for automating tasks, it's a totally different expressive medium.
- If good designers make good design tools - design in general will be better. Raising standards will raise appreciation for really good design.
- It isn't just about making art, it's about making life.
- No more rendering!
- Share your work more easily - be a rockstar.
What's it good for?
How?
- The programming hump is painful but finite.
- If you want to have fun, make sure to set mini-goals.
- The mini goals can lead up to the big goal: complexity.
Why Processing?
- It's stripped down to the essentials.
- The documentation and community are excellent.
- It's based on Java so you can use all of Java's features.
- It can be translated to Javascript so it runs on the web.
- It can export images and PDFs.
- It's simple and not quirky.
- Learning processing means learning how to code.
Things you'll have to learn:
- Variables
- Containers and Data Structures
- Conditionals and Loops
- Functions and Classes
Skill building projects
- Draw random shapes to the screen (maybe make them tile)
- Draw a circle of circles, then make it a spiral with sin(),cos()
- Make a spiral using your own function instead of ellipse
- Make a grid of interactive objects using arrays
- Make the objects collide