My Processing work­shop went very well on Saturday. When a group doesn’t inter­rupt with ques­tions, I worry that they’ve tuned me out, but it turns out every­one was just busy hack­ing away, mak­ing crazy blinky shapes and col­ors! From the offi­cial report:

Scott took us through the Processing IDE briefly, dis­cussing the parts of the win­dow, how to run your pro­gram, how to get help, and a few other use­ful tips. Then he jumped right into how to pro­gram - we were all able to cre­ate a sim­ple diag­o­nal line imme­di­ately. He walked us through flat sketches, mov­ing sketches, 3-D sketches, text, import­ing exter­nal images, var­i­ous con­trol struc­tures, and a brief expla­na­tion of objects. About 6-8 remained after the work­shop and con­tin­ued play­ing with the language.

All agreed Scott did an excel­lent job of intro­duc­ing Processing and that it’s a fas­ci­nat­ing and use­ful language.