Worth posting it.
Quote from Processing: creative coding and computational art by Ira Greenberg:
“When I tell people I write code as my main artistic medium, they smile politely and quickly
change the subject, or they tell me about their job-seeking cousin who makes videos using
iMovie.
For nonprogrammers, code is a mysterious and intimidating construct that gets
grouped into the category of things too complicated, geeky, or time-consuming to be
worth learning.
At the other extreme, for some professional programmers, code is seen
only as a tool to solve a technical problem—certainly not a creative medium.
There is another path—a path perhaps harder to maneuver, but ultimately more rewarding
than either the path of avoidance or detachment—a holistic “middle” way.
This is the path the book promotes; it presents the practice of coding as an art form/art practice,
rather than simply a means to an end. Although there are times when a project is scoped
out, and we are simply trying to implement it, most of the time as artists, we are trying to
find our way in the process of creating a project.
This approach of finding and searching is one of the things that makes the artist’s journey distinctive
and allows new unexpected solutions to be found. It is possible to do this in coding as well, and the
Processing language facilitates and encourages such a “creative coding” approach.”
