RISD DM2132 Code as Medium

RISD D+M

• Equipment Closet: Many equipment resources available for students in D+M courses including projectors, monitors, cameras and more.
• Library: Many programming and digital media books available in the D+M main office.

RISD Code Studio

Remember to check the p5.js Reference for an exhaustive list of commands.

I will not respond to personal emails with code questions, but ask them instead on the class Slack! We will answer questions here so that everyone can learn, we also strongly encourage you to answer each other's questions. Please feel free to write with logistical, conceptual, or other questions!

• Matt Gemmel, What have you tried?
• Clay Shirky, A brief introduction to debugging
• How to ask questions the smart way
• How to ask for programming help
• ITP Residents, 10 Tips for Debugging
• How to ask for help on IRC

Class tutorials

• How to upload and view files on RISD server
• Launching Chrome on OSX with flags
• Converting between p5.js and Processing tutorial

p5.js links

• p5.js Reference
• p5.js Education links
• p5.js Tutorials and Examples
• p5.js forum
• Official Processing site
• Examples in ProcessingJS adapted from Learning Processing

• CodeAcademy Web Fundamentals (also checkout the CodeAcademy JavaScript track for extra JS help)
• HTML.net : How does CSS work?
• HTML&CSS Book
• CSS properties reference

• Buzz: audio library
• two.js: two dimensional drawing
• three.js: three dimensional graphics
• d3: data visualization
• boxbox: physics engine

• How to run a local server

• CodeAcademy JSON Tutorial
• JSON Pretty Print

Fonts

• List of common Windows/OSX fonts
• Google Fonts

Books

• Casey Reas, Getting Started with Processing
• Casey Reas and Ben Fry, Processing Handbook
• Dan Shiffman, Learning Processing
• Dan Shiffman, Nature of Code
• Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams, Form+Code
• Bohnacker, Gross, Laub and Lazzeroni, Generative Design
• Edward A. Shanken, Art and Electronic Media
• Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
• Matthias Felleisen, How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
• Richard W. Hamming, Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
• Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
• All Processing books http://processing.org/books/index.html

Other online programming resources

• Dan Shiffman's Intro to Computational Media video series
• Mozilla, A re-introduction to JavaScript

Inspiration

• Creative Applications
• Open Processing
• Eyeo Festival, talks on Vimeo
• Artists featured in Form+Code
• Art and Electronic Media Online Companion
• Procesing exhibition

Food for thought

• Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle