Cake holders

Now you’ve learned how to bake some delicious Cake objects (hop over here if you’ve forgotten!), we need something to put them in. Step forward arrays. Arrays are a special sort of list – they have slots in them, like an old-fashioned milk bottle holder, that you can place things into. The restriction is that you have to tell Processing when you create your list both how big you want it to be, and what sorts of thing you want to put into it. Afterwards, your array can only hold a maximum of that number of those particular objects. For … More

Learning to code – resources

A great starter for those of an artistic leaning to learn to code is Processing: a specially-designed open-source tool aimed to get you up and creating visual experiments quickly.  You are given a big head start to create chunks of code, organised into “sketches”. More