Coding Art: A Guide to Unlocking Your Creativity with the Processing Language and p5.js in Four Simple Steps

Conclusion

This book has come to an end. We have written elaborately about how to approach “coding art” in several steps that move along a creative process. We wrote this book quite differently from conventional programming books and also quite differently from publications on art and on creative processes. In this book, we combine these two perspectives (code and the creative process), because we believe in their cohesion and mutual enrichment.

Over the years, we have seen countless young creatives struggle with the formalism of code that is introduced “just because.” The rigid structure of a computing curriculum that follows the logic of the machine and not the human and creative needs is not helpful to our deeper understanding of what technology ...