I'm a long time processing user and I've just been asked to teach a workshop on processing. I've taught processing once before, but I'd like to know if anyone else has any experience teaching a workshop and could give a few examples of what worked or didn't work for you.

I will be representing processing as a tool for digital artists, instead of an introduction to programming. I'd like to introduce new programming principles as they arise and not dwell on them too much. This is what I did last time and it seemed to work well.

I was thinking of having the final result of the workshop be an object oriented particle system. Starting off by simply drawing a fixed point, adding x and y variables for simple animation and working up slowly.

I'm not sure if this would be too advanced for beginners but I like pushing people.

Alternatively if anyone has suggestions for a project that would be more useful to aspiring digital artists feel free to recommend some.