I’ll be posting class notes for my Processing intro at New York’s Harvestworks online. Based on student feedback about what interests people, here’s the breakdown for the three classes.

Week One

What’s Processing?

A little bit of history

Processing is Java

How is Processing different from things that aren’t Processing?

Hello, world, Processing style

Install Processing, Java

Draw "hello"

Say "hello"

Processing syntax

Using the IDE

Using help and documentation

Putting stuff on the screen

Coordinates

Drawing

Color

3D coordinates

Textures

Load an image

Load a video

What next

Where to find inspiration

Where to find libraries

Where to find code

Week Two

Reading pixels

Video capture

Working with 3D

Basic sound playback and analysis

Connect to MIDI

Arduino introduction

Week Three

Video analysis

Advanced hardware

Networking

Data