Processing

On the first day of Advanced Programming we were taught to use a program called processing. It has the basics of any C language but I hope is different from them because it was a little bit complicated for me. Just like learning any new language learning a programming language can be very difficult at the start, but as you learn more it hopefully gets easier.

Some cool things can be done with processing. I have yet to see the difference between this and some of the other programs that we have learned but I assume there is more to come.

With the code I previously showed you can make cool looking things like this and if you just want to see the ball bounce around on the walls then all you do is chance the value of "background."

The first thing we were tasked with doing was making a smiley face. This was pretty challenging. Although, given, we were walked through writing the code but finding the on little missing semi-colon can be a huge bother.

Codecademy.com for Javascript

On day 2 of Advanced Programming we used a website called codecademy.com which teaches you whatever type of code you want. I chose to learn Javascript which is my new favorite programming language.

If you get an error of any kind it will notify you and explain why with this little "x".

Or if you just need a little help this info symbol comes up.

It will say you need something like a semicolon or something else. On wednesday we were challenged to create a house using processing which was not fun.

Once we finished it we were able to move it around and make it do silly things. I just didn't "paint" mine

After making the house we turned it into a function and made multiple of them move which was just implementing things we learned yesterday into what we did today.