It’s done! This weekend’s cre­at­ing cod­ing work­shop at GAFFTA went really well, despite Loveparade’s pound­ing rev­elry just out­side. In case you missed it, you can expe­ri­ence all 10.5 hours of cod­ing bliss in under two min­utes — just watch the video below. Also, check out some of the great projects that the stu­dents made.

My sou­venir Gray Area logo pin:

I’m very excited to announce that I will be co-teaching a two-day intro­duc­tion to Processing at the new Gray Area Foundation for the Arts here in San Francisco! The work­shop is the first in a series on cre­ative cod­ing, and coin­cides with Gray Area’s grand open­ing cel­e­bra­tions and ini­tial exhi­bi­tion, fea­tur­ing work by C.E.B. Reas, Camille Utterback, and Stamen Design.

The Gray Area folks have cre­ated an amaz­ing space down­town, and this work­shop is an excit­ing chance to learn a ton of great new skills, and even meet one of Processing’s co-initiators. (C.E.B. will be mak­ing an appearance.)

The work­shop is sched­uled for Saturday, October 3rd & Sunday, October 4th, 1:00 – 6:00pm both days.

See GAFFTA’s site for the com­plete sched­ule, details, and reg­is­tra­tion.

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.

I’ll be teach­ing a work­shop on Processing in just two weeks here in San Francisco. If you’re in the Bay Area and would like to learn how to get your com­puter to do really neat stuff, learn more about the work­shop here. Space is lim­ited, but don’t worry—if you can’t make this one, there will be many more com­ing soon!

Thanks to every­one at NoiseBridge for their encour­age­ment, sup­port, and assistance.