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Hosting a Processing w/shop - tips/suggestions?
Nov 12th, 2005, 12:56pm
 
My crew and I want to do a Processing workshop early next year [in Cape Town, SA]. Ideally it should be aimed both at folks with coding background and non-programmers - graphic designers, VJs for example.

At the moment I'm thinking we could deconstruct the performance tool I'm working on - demonstrate & discuss what each module does, i.e. GUI, audio analysis, visual plugins, connecting with outside software/hardware via MIDI, OSC etc. It might be handy as participants would have something tangible to play & tinker with afterwards, but we'd need to be careful about not going too technical.

Some useful bits at http://workshop.evolutionzone.com, but any advice & past experiences would be appreciated, thanks!

Btw. you can check us out at www.liquidfridge.co.za
Re: Hosting a Processing w/shop - tips/suggestions
Reply #1 - Nov 24th, 2005, 12:42am
 
This is quite cool.

I just like to point out that you might want to split up your workshop such that you teach low level and high level concepts seperately.

For beginners to coding, going directly to say, audio analysis might be overwhelmingly difficult when they have yet to understand what a "float" is, program flow, what "arrays" are... all of these are difficult concepts to grasp that IMO should be learned before going really high level.
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