Joy of Processing (Tutorial Blog)

[jbum]

Joy of Processing is a tutorial blog I started a few weeks ago to post
beginning and intermediate Processing and Processing.js tutorials.
You'll find it here:

http://joyofprocessing.com/

Jim Bumgardner

[Dave Pentecost]

Nice work, very appealing approach, and good timing for my students. Thanks!

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[Evelyn Eastmond]

Agreed, I like the playful approach, I think it works well for
beginners/artists who aren't wowed by the tech and mathematics.

Thanks for the link.
One suggestion, is there a way to show multiple posts per page? It's
a little tedious to keep clicking 'previous' post. The list on the
right is nice!

Evelyn

[Evelyn Eastmond]

Do you plan to take submissions for the tutorials?
I would be happy to write a couple of them!
I really love this idea.

Evelyn

[jbum]

> One suggestion, is there a way to show multiple posts per page?

Agreed. The reason I chose to do it this way is that enables me to
launch animations on some of the tutorials. If I had multiple
tutorials per page, the cumulative animations would kill the CPU.
Even a lot of cumulative processing sketches (without animation) will
load quite slowly.

My plan, which is not quite realized yet, is to make much better
sidebar navigation, which includes thumbnails of the previous and next
16 sketches or so, so it's easier
to quickly page thru them.

> Do you plan to take submissions for the tutorials?

I'd love to take submissions for tutorials. All that I ask is that
your submissions work in both Processing, and Processing.JS. At some
point, I'll make it easier to submit sketches, but in the short term,
you can email me (jbum "at" jbum "dot" com).

[jim, tralala]

Nice work.

I think the exercise of drawing a flag in Processing is a good topic
for beginner students, also used that.
Even if it can feel a little politically contentious, a little too
nationalistic for the liberal arts!
Thinking about it my favourite flag design to attempt would be that of
Tibet, which is unfortunately under such a pressure, a poignant
symbol.

cheers,

Jim

[J David Eisenberg]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:13 AM, jim, tralala <jim.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice work.
>
> I think the exercise of drawing a flag in Processing is a good topic
> for beginner students, also used that.
> Even if it can feel a little politically contentious, a little too
> nationalistic for the liberal arts!
> Thinking about it my favourite flag design to attempt would be that of
> Tibet, which is unfortunately under such a pressure, a poignant
> symbol.
>

Instead of drawing a specific flag, you can say "You have been hired
by the new country of Alaǹeði to design its flag. According to
Alaǹeðian law, the flag must have at least three colors and at least
two repeating elements." (The last requirement will lead into
for/while loops.)

This idea comes from The Anti-Coloring Books®
(http://www.susanstriker.com/anticoloring.html), where children get a
partial drawing and have to use their imagination to complete it.

[jbum]

>> a little too nationalistic for the liberal arts!

Guess I better shelve my swastika exercise.

:)

[Evelyn Eastmond]

haha, some artists might be all over that