The SparkFun Guide to Processing

The SparkFun Guide to Processing is your key to unlocking the world of interactive digital art creation. This beginner-friendly programming language is free to use and specifically designed to empower those with no prior programming experience. With just a simple program, you can create digital masterpieces. The software provides immediate on-screen feedback, allowing you to see your creation come to life in real-time.

Authored by Derek Runberg, an Educational Technologist from SparkFun's Department of Education, this guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to use Processing to create your own digital artwork. It even shows you how to integrate your creations with hardware. The book starts with the basics, teaching you to draw simple shapes. As you progress, you'll learn how to edit photos, manipulate videos, and even interact with an Arduino.

As you delve deeper into the guide, you'll work on a variety of projects that gradually increase in complexity. You'll learn how to create detailed pixel art and scale it to impressive sizes. You'll write a maze game and construct a MaKey MaKey controller with fruit buttons. You'll even learn how to record and sample audio to create your own soundboard. Other projects include fetching weather data from the internet to build a custom weather dashboard and creating visualizations that change based on sound, light, and temperature readings.

The SparkFun Guide to Processing proves that art and programming are not mutually exclusive. With Processing as your digital paintbrush, you'll be coding your own gallery in no time. This guide is compatible with Processing 3.0.

Product Details:

• Author: Derek Runberg
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Format: Paperback
• Number of Pages: 232
• ISBN-10: 1593276125
• ISBN-13: 978-1593276126