So I had my first ICM (Intro. to Computational Media) class.
Professor Dan O’Sullivan introduced the class to Processing, a Java based programming language, which is considered a “high level” language used for interface development. Now I know there are a million bagillion other languages out there ( well a dozen others actually) So why learn an other when Flash and Actionscript already do a lot of cool things? One quick answer that came to mind is, Physical Computing. You can integrate the processing language into Arduino Language which means you can control little micro chips and therefore control things like motors, LEDs, electric currents, Etc.
This opens up a world of possibilities and I was sold with in minutes.
For a the class assigment I decided to make a static circle on the top left of the screen, then I decided to give loops a try. Along with the loops I made a couple of variables using the “float” command. The “fatCheeseburger” and “bannanaMan” variable are assigned a random number and then used in the ellipse sna stroke commands. This is what resulted from this :
Class 1 Circle Madness!