Eventually, I had to get down to the nitty gritty of programming and see what was powering all those pretty interactive graphics and interfaces. This is an ongoing endeavour through processing.org, where I've downloaded the free software application onto my home computer and MacBook. For the most part, I've been doing this on my home computer.
I already had a vague understanding of java and html, as well as formulas that I often used in excel (as a result, I had a love-hate relationship with excel because formulas confused the hell out of me, even during my ECDL course), but the appeal of the Processing,org is primarily focused more on the visual and far more engaging in terms of tutorials and guidelines. Hello Processing, for example, somewhat refamiliarised my knowledge and understanding of basic programming and broke it down with such simplification, but it's not entirely the same as what I was doing on, say, vampirefreaks ten years ago. But you could say I owe it to the social network for introducing me to HTML and CSS, as the initial appeal of the website for me was the freedom in how someone with practically no experience of programming can code his/her profile to look. It was the same case with myspace when it was extremely popular around 2006-08.
I would be lying if I said that coding wasn't a bit dull, but it depends on the end result you're aiming for. I don't know how to build a website from absolute scratch (yet), and the tutorials can at times be daunting. But that really is just me. I suspect that a better way to go about doing this is diving right into it in the most practical way possible. The LightNight project I've mentioned in earlier posts will be a good way of the deep end, and I also have my own project to consider in this respect.
I would be lying if I said that coding wasn't a bit dull, but it depends on the end result you're aiming for. I don't know how to build a website from absolute scratch (yet), and the tutorials can at times be daunting. But that really is just me. I suspect that a better way to go about doing this is diving right into it in the most practical way possible. The LightNight project I've mentioned in earlier posts will be a good way of the deep end, and I also have my own project to consider in this respect.
Suffice to say, here is a practice example of programming:
At this point, I acquaint the relevance of this example to my Learning Agreement project in respect to my drawing experiment. There is still a lot to address when it comes to physical application, but I'll be wrestling with that in the Isadora basement at the Trent Bonington building this week (hopefully tomorrow).
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