Being a noob, I am constantly searching the web for good info related to "Processing". But that word ("Processing") is very "dirty" in Google; Loads of other uses of the word usually overrides, and the result is that is can be very hard to find material about "Processing" (The right kind), related to a specific topic.

So I'd like to suggest that something (anything that is just unique to some extend) would be added to the name, so a search could be done in the future.

Let's say the extra was "Lobster Frying", (Note; My suggestion goes on adding a word or two,not these words, they are example) all that would have to be done, was to start calling it "Processing Lobster Frying" on the official processing.org page - and slowly, but steady, we could head towards a situation where searching on the programming language and various topics would start to yield results.

Hi again, still noob trying to learn Processing by backwards engineering this:
http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/73427

This line:
class traceBatch implements WorkItem
in
DistanceFractals.pde
tells me that Processing is told to draw on the included
code/portlib.jar
in which is packed (I renamed to portlib.zip and unzipped)
WorkItem.class
and apparently what I want to edit at this stage of my tweaking and learning, is done in that very class.

Question:
Is there a way to backwards engineer that class, or would I have to ask the author for a copy of a somewhat not assembled version of that class?

Or am I not making sense at all? :)
Point is; I want to learn what the line
class traceBatch implements WorkItem
does, and learn it by changing that code. How?

Thanks!

I am trying to learn Processing by carefully studying other peoples code.

Right now I am spending days taking this apart:
http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/73427

One thing that is really hard for me to understand, is when apparently some people write a lot of code that to me appears as not really supposed to work, but it usually works better than the code I can find in the examples on processing.org

It's a nice way to learn tricks as well, but I don't get it - Example: it appears that writing "for" loops works well without {} or even ; after it, and it then just runs the following line in virtual {} - but I cannot find any of that in the official documentation.

Tell me, if you can; What does this line, from the above link do:

void trace(color[] pix, int sy, int ey)

I understand:
void: Function returns no value
trace: Name of function to implement
(color: I understand, but then.. [] ?!?

Thanks a lot for not killing me while I'm noob :)