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Learn to Program with Processing
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(165 ratings)
1,130 students

Learn to Program with Processing

Create interactive graphics and animation
Created byJuan Espinoza
Last updated 3/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Basic building blocks of programming: Expressions, conditionals, loops, arrays
  • Handle mouse and keyboard inputs
  • Learn to work with basic geometry, custom shapes, images and text
  • Create interactive graphics and animation
  • Create smooth animations with Interpolation and easing
  • Create standalone applications you can distribute
  • Object Oriented Programming: Classes, inheritance, polymorphism and interface
  • Physics simulations

Course content

8 sections38 lectures6h 4m total length
  • What is Processing?4:01

    In this lesson you will be introduced to the processing programming environment

  • Setup4:53

    Installation of the Processing programming environment on Windows, MacOsX and Ubuntu

  • Basics13:42

    We will create our first sketch. Along the way you will learn about screen coordinates and basic sketch structure.

  • Variables13:16

    We begin with the smallest building block of a computer program: a variable. We will learn how to use variables to store information in our sketch.

  • Expressions12:56

    We introduce both mathematical as well as logical expressions. We also take a look at their corresponding operators

  • Control Statements: Loops16:44

    In this lesson we introduce our first control statement: the "for loop".

  • Control Statements: Conditionals9:44

    In this lesson we learn how to make decisions in code and steer the direction of our sketch accordingly.

  • Arrays6:46

    Let's learn how to store values in chains of memory called "arrays".

  • End of Section 1 Exercises0:06

Requirements

  • Basic computer knowledge

Description

Do you wish learn to program once and for all? Wish you could do it in an easy and friendly manner? Then this course is for you!

This course is designed to teach you to program in a more graphical and interactive way. Learn to program in Java with the easy to use Processing development environment. Forget about difficult setups and installations. Just download Processing and run.

Unlike other courses, we won’t begin learning by outputting text to a console, instead we will draw and animate on the screen right from the first lesson. By forgetting about tedious setups and initializations we can focus more on developing ideas and concepts.

The course is designed with the absolute beginner in mind. We start from scratch by looking at the absolute basics and build on from there to more complex topics. The objective is to make the process of learning to code less intimidating. Complex subjects are explained in a simple and visual way. By using images and animations students can grasp concepts better. End of section exercises and their respective solutions allow you to practice what you learn in the lessons.

What about math? We keep the complicated math to a minimum and only introduce it when absolutely necessary. Even when this happens, the main goal or concept of the lesson is not dependent on the math. So even if you don’t want to deal with the math, you can still understand the concepts.

With our carefully designed curriculum you get an extensive course that won't take a year to finish. Each lesson will teach you essential concepts without long improvised explanations. Theory is kept to a minimum, only explaining the most important concepts, then is of to implementing it in code. A lot of work has gone into getting the right balance between theory and practice.

So if you wish to learn to code in an easy and fun way this is the course for you!

Who this course is for:

  • Absolute beginners with no coding experience
  • Artists who wish to learn new media technologies
  • Hobbyists
  • Makers
  • Anyone who wishes to learn a new skill to advance their carrer