Advance Praise for Getting Started with Processing
“Making a computer program used to be as easy as turning it on and
typing one or two lines of code to get it to say, ‘Hello.’ Now it takes
a 500+-page manual and an entire village. Not anymore. This little
book by Ben and Casey gets you computationally drawing lines, tri-
angles, and circles within minutes of clicking the ‘download’ button.
They’ve made making computer programs humanly and humanely
possible again—and that’s no small feat.”
—John Maeda,
President of Rhode Island School of Design
“Getting Started with Processing is not only a straightforward intro-
duction to basic programming—it’s fun! It almost feels like an activity
workbook for grownups. You may want to buy it even if you never
thought you were interested in programming, because you will be.“
—Mark Allen,
Founder and Director, Machine Project
“This is an excellent primer for those wanting to dip their feet into
programming graphics. Its learning by doing approach makes it
particularly appropriate for artists and designers who are often put
off by more traditional theory first approaches. The price of the book
and the fact that the Processing environment is open source makes
this an excellent choice for students.“
—Gillian Crampton Smith,
Fondazione Venezia Professor of Design, IUAV University of Venice
“Processing changed dramatically the way we teach programming
and it’s one of the major factors of the success of Arduino.”
—Massimo Banzi,
Cofounder of Arduino
“Casey Reas and Ben Fry champion the exciting power of programming
for creatives in Getting Started with Processing, a hands-on guide for
making code-based drawings and interactive graphics. Reas and Fry
are clear and direct, but as artists, they’re not afraid to be a bit eccen-
tric and offbeat. This makes their unique form of teaching powerful.”
—Holly Willis,
Director of Academic Programs,
Institute for Multimedia Literacy, School of Cinematic Arts, USC