http://grandtextauto.org/2008/11/25/give-thanks-processing-10/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 19 May 2010 01:52:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/11/25/give-thanks-processing-10/comment-page-1/#comment-366031 Nick Montfort Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:01:18 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2283#comment-366031 Greg, to answer very briefly - I've found that Processing is good for quickly sketching out visual, interactive, Web-based projects that are driven by computation. It's also pretty good for novice programmers. Ultimately, it may be most useful to look at <a href="http://www.processing.org/learning/index.html" rel="nofollow">example projects</a> that have been done in Processing to get an idea of what it does well. Greg, to answer very briefly – I’ve found that Processing is good for quickly sketching out visual, interactive, Web-based projects that are driven by computation. It’s also pretty good for novice programmers. Ultimately, it may be most useful to look at example projects that have been done in Processing to get an idea of what it does well.

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2008/11/25/give-thanks-processing-10/comment-page-1/#comment-366012 Greg Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:21:30 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2283#comment-366012 Hm. Well, this gives me absolutely no insight as to why Processing might be better or worse than PHP, Java, Flash, or, you know, Python, or for that matter LISP or RPG. Or Dark Basic, or, who knows, the SCUMM engine. What does it do well? What does it do poorly? "computer programming within a visual context" sounds quite vague to me. Hm. Well, this gives me absolutely no insight as to why Processing might be better or worse than PHP, Java, Flash, or, you know, Python, or for that matter LISP or RPG. Or Dark Basic, or, who knows, the SCUMM engine. What does it do well? What does it do poorly? “computer programming within a visual context” sounds quite vague to me.

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2008/11/25/give-thanks-processing-10/comment-page-1/#comment-365071 Mary Flanagan Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:30:41 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2283#comment-365071 Also note that Processing is taught in the computer science department at Dartmouth College in several courses relating to the Digital Arts Minor, http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/DigitalArts/about.html, and might be in some of the new classes I'm developing at Dartmouth. Also note that Processing is taught in the computer science department at Dartmouth College in several courses relating to the Digital Arts Minor, http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/DigitalArts/about.html, and might be in some of the new classes I’m developing at Dartmouth.

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2008/11/25/give-thanks-processing-10/comment-page-1/#comment-365067 Mary Flanagan Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:29:17 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2283#comment-365067 I'm delighted. I’m delighted.

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