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benhanbury YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	new to processing tutorials Dec 20^th, 2005, 1:37pm hi there, I'm completely new to processing (and not a particularly good coder) however I'd really like to get into it - does anyone know if there are any real basic step by step tutorials around anywhere to get started on? cheers

benhanbury YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: new to processing tutorials Reply #1 - Dec 20^th, 2005, 1:40pm ooops sorry forget that! have just found the learning section on this website! however if anyone else knows about any other stuff floating around, i would love to know

seltar Senior Member Offline Posts: 475	Re: new to processing tutorials Reply #2 - Dec 20^th, 2005, 3:52pm http://itp.nyu.edu/icm/shiffman/ this is a great site for learning processing, and getting "assignments" as well.. (if you bother that is).. hope you'll get something out of processing.. it's a really powerful language! -seltar
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benhanbury YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: new to processing tutorials Reply #3 - Dec 23^rd, 2005, 1:06pm wicked cheers! - - - - - - www.benhanbury.com

douglas

Re: new to processing tutorials
Reply #4 - Jan 14^th, 2006, 9:52am

If you can read French, I have a step-by-step online tutorial/class you can follow at:

http://www.ecole-art-aix.fr/hypermedia/

I'm already at lesson #14 ("ddd") And counting. I'll be adding video input, audio input, arrays, objects, and a few other external libraries, then I'll be more or less done.

I believe in using as many real-world screenshots as possible, lots of click here, try this, this is what this looks like, etc. Lots of arrows and colored blocks of code. So even if you don't read French it might work for you.

Of course this means that I'll be in a world of pain if Processing ever changes its skin (always a problem with tutorials), but I think I'm pretty safe for now.

Also, I take to heart the theory that Processing can be taught to anyone in our art school, even the ones who don't really know computers all that well. So I even quickly show where you go to download the program with screenshots, and so on. It's a soup-to-nuts project.

It would of course be a great project for everyone to work together on : building step-by-step tutorial in multiple languages. Perhaps this is what Casey is working towards, but since it's a book-project, that might make adapting it more complicated...

// douglas edric stanley&&<destanley@abstractmachine.net>&&&&http://www.abstractmachine.net/&&http://www.ecole-art-aix.fr/hypermedia/&&http://www.ciren.org/

REAS

Re: new to processing tutorials
Reply #5 - Jan 14^th, 2006, 10:28am

Douglas,

I was originally trying to make something work equally for web and print. I couldn't get it right, so I put my entire energy into the print version. You have something great going there for the web. Maybe someone will be willing to translate to English and then others to translate to additional languages from there...

Anyway, we hope to get the tutorials section back online within the next few months (when working on the book cools down) in addition to getting the reference translations back online. We'll have a few sample chapters from the book and with your permission, we'll add a link to your recent efforts.

Casey

douglas

Re: new to processing tutorials
Reply #6 - Jan 14^th, 2006, 11:03am

REAS wrote on Jan 14^th, 2006, 10:28am:

We'll have a few sample chapters from the book and with your permission, we'll add a link to your recent efforts.

My effort was a somewhat humble one, and I was hoping that others would be similarly inspired and that we could somehow incite a mashup, comparing and combining tutorials. A sort of CVS for tutorials. Maybe a wiki (God I'm getting sick of that word). Archive.org Wikimedia I dunno, it's all growing so quickly.

My philosophy is that I'm getting paid to teach, and that I don't care who I'm teaching as long as the loan for my house is fed. So if everyone profits that's great. It also makes teaching easier and has made some great new contacts here in France. But beyond that I don't really have any time to go any further -- like everyone else here I'm an artist and I have to reserve that luxury for myself. So if anyone wants to take the content and do something with it, go for it! I should (cc) the class, I'll have to get around to doing that.

Yes, a link to my attempt is ok, that goes without saying. But you should also link up to Daniel Shiffman's tutorials as well, etc. And there has got to be more out there, maybe I just haven't looked hard enough.

Anyone else

// douglas edric stanley&&<destanley@abstractmachine.net>&&&&http://www.abstractmachine.net/&&http://www.ecole-art-aix.fr/hypermedia/&&http://www.ciren.org/

Ira

Re: new to processing tutorials
Reply #7 - Jan 14^th, 2006, 7:23pm

I guess this is as good a time as any to plug my upcoming Processing book. Casey mentioned it a few weeks back, but here's some more info.

The book is now listed on the friends of Ed site: http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=159059617X , and it can be pre-ordered from a bunch of book sellers, including Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159059617X/ref=nosim/102-5551052-0548152?n=283155

I'm trying to finish up the last few chapters and have the thing to press sometime in April. The book is intended for newbie coders and, as with all foe books, geared towards creative "types"–which to my mind suggests an "approach", rather than any specific discipline. I think the book will also be useful for people coming from another language, especially ActionScript.

The book covers coding theory, from procedural programming through advanced OOP; general computer graphics theory, including some fundamental math; some visual design principals/theory; the complete Processing API; and some computing and code art history. In addition, the book is packed with examples.

I have gone out of my way to not duplicate the excellent tutorials Casey and others have created already. I have also tried, as much as was possible, to not duplicate or simply reiterate the reference section on the Processing site; rather I've tried to expand upon many of the concepts. Lastly, as Casey is writing his own book, we've been in regular communication about our projects, and I know we're both committed to not duplicating one another's effort, which wouldn't serve readers.

As an academic, my hope is that instructors will also find the book useful as a course text. I'm currently using the book in draft form for my own Processing course this semester, and I'll be able to make some adjustments based on initial class feedback.

Well, back to writing. As I have more info, I'll post it. Please feel free to contact me directly if you prefer:
greenbi at muohio dot edu

Ira

Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art
http://friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=159059617X

The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers
http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430219798

Center of Creative Computation
Meadows/Lyle
SMU, Dallas

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: new to processing tutorials Reply #8 - Jan 14^th, 2006, 7:35pm Ira, Please make a separate thread for the book plug to make it as obvious as possible. When it's launched we'll make a link from the site. Casey

Ira Full Member Offline Posts: 238 Dallas	Re: new to processing tutorials Reply #9 - Jan 14^th, 2006, 8:20pm done. Thanks Casey.
	Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art http://friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=159059617X The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430219798 Center of Creative Computation Meadows/Lyle SMU, Dallas

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