Today I typed (and by typed I mean copied verbatim from the GSwP book) much Processing code into the Processing code editor and watched neat things happen. I also edited some of the code that I typed to see how the edits changed things.

I sense a movement from “learning programming” to “learning processing” and for that I’m glad. I spent several hours this afternoon working through the end of the chapter I didn’t finish yesterday, I made another robot, but I felt GSwP missed the opportunity to make me work for it. I can’t decide whether or not I like the fact that I don’t have to think unless I want to with this book. It sure makes it approachable, but I wonder how much I’ll retain. Time will tell.

After Pinhookery, I came home and installed processing.js on my website and that was super easy. Now you’ll be able to see and play with whatever I create. This particular setup doesn’t work on phones, but I think I heard somewhere that you can use HTML5 so that it does. More soon on that one.