Our first day with processing was taught by one of our regular tutors Andrew, the aim was just to get familial with what the software and programming language looked like. I had no idea what to expect and after drawing a few simple objects mapped to the mouse was left wondering how you would then take that forward and build some more complex interactions.
We then had our first day with Seb and he introduced us to the very basics. After explaining something he would get us to all code along with his demonstrations. it felt like we covered quite a lot of ground in the first few lessons. the areas we covered where:
- The basics of the coordinate drawing system
- how to create a simple drawing tool
- Variables - a way of storing values and data to be used in multiple places
- conditionals - a way of testing if something has happened and then to do something if it has
- for loops - allows you to do multiple actions at once
After the first few lessons I was really excited with everything which we had learnt and believed that with the information we had learnt so far it would be possible to build a simple game such as breakout!
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