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- Chrisir March 2015
- Cynos April 2015
- hudson_m4000 March 2015
- KevinWorkman March 2015
How did you learn processing?
I've just been stuck in processing for a bit, and even though i am seeing lots of examples, i'm not progressing much in this. Also i did see @KevinWorkman's tutorial, but to view it i have to go through google translate, and it must of messed up how i view the website because the code goes off the screen. I just want to see how all of you have learned processing, so I can possibly learn that way too. Thanks!
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The best way to learn how to program is to program. Give yourself little assignments: can you make Pong? How about Space Invaders or Asteroids?
You could also check out the raw content of the tutorials here, if your school doesn't block GitHub as well.
Here is the link to KevinWorkman's tutorial:
http://staticvoidgames.com/tutorials
Also see
The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman http://natureofcode.com
@Chrisir I think he knows that, but his school blocks my site. I knew I shouldn't have included the term "games" in my url!
I bought 'Getting Started With Processing' and typed in all the examples... no copy/paste etc from websites. This helped me understand the IDE, syntax and some commonly used commands, and took me quite a long way into programming. After that I looked at some of the examples, but to be honest I found it hard to follow the code in many of them, and I learnt far more by setting myself tasks/problems, and trying to debug when they failed to run!
I think I learned programming when I was 13 or so and tried to program a (totally non-playable) chess-board with brown and white fields and the figures just represented by letters like K and Q....
That was so difficult for me....
And then a teacher deleted the whole program without any back-up or without telling me before because he wanted to clean the computer....
Later I stayed late in the computer room of the school (I didn't have a computer at home back then of course) and because I stayed there too long (I think the building supervisor of the school found me in the evening) everybody got angry and I wasn't allowed back into the computer room for two weeks or so as a punishment... no one, no teacher asked what I was programming there or whether I maybe wanted to learn programming....
A ridiculous school.
You see, sometimes you have to learn despite of your teachers and against them....
My father is a programmer and he explained Punched Cards to me and some old school programming languages to me. I will be forever grateful for that. I gave him a processing book for Christmas this year.
Later some guys from my class and I organized a regular weekly workshop in the same computer room. Sometimes we got an elder pupil or a teacher helping us but mostly we showed each other bits and pieces...
;-)
Just with the Processing reference and looking some other people's codes.