Processing 101

Processing is an open source programming language and integrated development environment for artists. It's used by artists to create art, visualizations and simulations.

This course serves as an introduction to programming in processing. Focus is on the application than theory. You start with one line of code, then add another line, run it, change it, run it again until you get what you want. Hence it is mostly called sketching than programming. We will use the same process in the course to learn. Focus of the course will be on using Processing to visualize the data.

Duration:

4 weeks, 4 hours of class each week. 16 hours in total.

Presentation/Tutorial:

Presentation or in class tutorial is available online. The course material can be used for self learning too.

Modules:

M1:Introduction

Introduction to Processing
Installation of runtime and setup
Co-ordinate system
Points and Lines
Circles, spheres and other geometrical shapes
Drawing order
Colors, Stroke Width and Fill
Lets create an Android

M2:Programming with Processing

Structure (statements and comments)
Operators
Variables (primitives)
Functions (custom and built-in)
Conditional Flows
Looping
Loop inside a loop
Text and Font
Mouse Interactions
Keyboard Interactions
Save (text and image)
Lets write a LightRacer game

M3: Advanced Processing-1

Arrays
Motions
Images (load, interact and processing)
Libraries

M4:Advanced Processing-2

Object oriented programming (classes and objects)
Simulations
Introduction to 3d

Project:

Yet to be decided.

Code:

All code examples from the class are available on a public repository.

Requirements:

Computer or Laptop with at least 1G processor and 512MB RAM. Linux/Windows/MacOS preferred.
Java Runtime or Java SDK
Processing installation
HTML5 capable browser

Important sites:

Processing http://processing.org/
Presentation or Tutorial
Processing JS http://processingjs.org/
Code Repository
Every other link at http://www.delicious.com/gnthej/processing101