{"id":5,"date":"2015-06-14T19:24:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/?p=5"},"modified":"2015-06-15T00:38:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:38:02","slug":"introduction-to-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/introduction-to-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.processing.org\">Processing<\/a> is a popular, very-high-level programming language that began at MIT in 2001. Originally developed by MIT Media Lab alums <a href=\"http:\/\/reas.com\/\">Casey Reas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/benfry.com\/\">Benjamin Fry<\/a>\u2014both artists and technology thinkers, Processing was intended to be a learning language, a tool to get non-programmers, particularly artists, hooked on code via the promise and delivery of immediate visual feedback.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about the history of Processing, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/review\/414828\/when-a-good-idea-works\/\">interesting article about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Workshop Goals:<\/h2>\n<p>Explore the concepts and skills of creative coding<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the workshop we\u2019ll help you develop practical programming concepts and skills by exploring creative ideas and challenges. We\u2019ll be looking at the history and philosophy behind artistic uses of technology, so you can gain a greater understanding of how best to express your own creative vision using the software you write.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to teach you \u201calgorithmic thinking\u201d \u2013 ways to conceptualize and model the world so you can express creative ideas using computer programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Processing is a popular, very-high-level programming language that began at MIT in 2001. Originally developed by MIT Media Lab alums Casey Reas and Benjamin Fry\u2014both artists and technology thinkers, Processing was intended to be a learning language, a tool to get non-programmers, particularly artists, hooked on code via the promise and delivery of immediate visual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.haigarmen.com\/creativecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}