Week 1: Introduction to Creative Coding
Week 1 of Creative Coding provided an overview of the course. We learned how to:
- Describe and explore art and design made with computer programs;
- Install the Processing programming environment for this course on our computer;;
- Create a simple graphic using the environment; and
- Understand the basic elements of a Processing sketch.
Processing is a simplified version of the Java programming language. It includes special support for drawing and manipulating graphics, colours, text, images, typefaces and sound. It allows us to easily respond to mouse and keyboard interactions. This makes it quite powerful for quickly experimenting with creative ideas in code.
Week 1 included three exercises to introduce us to Processing, to ensure we had successfully installed the software and exposed us to Processing code.
