Introduction to Coding and Graphics/Animation with Processing/Java

In the Hardware Hacking Area assembly: Learn the basics of coding and visual programming! We'll use the Processing environment, which is free, open-source, easy for beginners, but powerful enough to be used by professional designers. Processing is based on the Java programming language. It is trivial to export your Processing work into a Java applet or application. People can view your work easily through a web browser, on multiple platforms, without having the Processing environment. This will be a 3-hour, hands-on beginners’ session on programming with Processing. We’ll go over the basics of programming and graphics, working with geometric shapes and images, and controlling animation and movement. We’ll play with a lot of examples and learn to customize and extend them, so have your computer ready (Linux, Mac OSX and Windows are all supported), preferably with Java loaded. A couple animation demos I made with Processing: https://vimeo.com/86147072 https://vimeo.com/343775093 To get a head start, either check out the online Processing development environment at: http://sketchpad.cc or download a copy for your own computer: https://processing.org/download/