Like a lot of people, I suspect, I tend to buy books, download source files, and squirrel them away somewhere, saying to myself – I will read them, I will go through the files – and, inevitably, you don’t.
However, this being a new year and all, I thought in order to push myself to learn something new, why not blog about it and take everybody along for the ride.
And for this purpose I have chosen to learn Processing – and I have also chosen to start with this book…
The Essential Guide to processing for Flash developers
…I bought this book in pdf format from the friendsofed website recently and I will use it to to start the whole thing off – I plan to blog my experiments, problems, thoughts, etc for you all to see. I will be using an iMac 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 Gb ram, running Snow Leopard (10.6.2).
Why did I choose to learn Processing? Because the artwork coming out from some people looks fantastic and it looks to be fun. Processing itself is free, and although I have yet to get to grips with the code for Processing, it is based on java, and actionscript/javascript are similar, so I am hoping it will not be too much of a headache to learn.
Here is the main processing website…
Have a look around there and you will see what I mean.
Bye for now and expect to see my first experiment soon.
That looks interesting – I have actually never heard of it before… I look forward to reading about your progress and seeing what can be done. And may even have a try – following in your path – myself.
Good luck!
Beaty