Learning Processing

Acknowledgments

In the fall of 2001, I wandered into the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University having not written a line of code since some early 80’s experiments in BASIC on an Apple II+. There, in a first semester course entitled Introduction to Computational Media, I discovered programming. Without the inspiration and support of ITP, my home since 2001, this book would have never been written.

Red Burns, the department’s chair and founder, has supported and encouraged me in my work for the last seven years. Dan O’Sullivan has been my teaching mentor and was the first to suggest that I try a course in Processing at ITP, giving me a reason to start putting together programming tutorials. ...