The Highlander Blog » interaction http://www.highlander.co.uk/blog Thoughts and musing from within Highlander Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:05:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Processing – come along for the ride http://www.highlander.co.uk/blog/2010/01/06/processing-come-along-for-the-ride/ http://www.highlander.co.uk/blog/2010/01/06/processing-come-along-for-the-ride/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:06:39 +0000 Alex http://www.highlander.co.uk/blog/?p=81 [...]]]> 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

By Ira Greenberg

…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…

http://processing.org/

Have a look around there and you will see what I mean.

Bye for now and expect to see my first experiment soon.

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