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Creative Coding for Beginners - Full Course

Coding Train via YouTube

Overview

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This beginner course introduces creative coding with Processing, from drawing and interaction to variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and classes. Learners apply these concepts in a confetti project.

Syllabus

⭐️ INTRODUCTION ⭐️
How to Download Processing
⭐️ DRAWING WITH CODE ⭐️
Shapes
The Processing Reference
Saving Your Code
Code Comments
Errors
Stroke Weight
RGB color
Bits and Bytes
Color Modes
Alpha Transparency
⭐️ FLOW ⭐️
Setup and Draw
mouseX and mouseY
mousePressed
⭐️ VARIABLES ⭐️
Creating Your Own
Incrementation Operations
Random Numbers
⭐️ CONDITIONALS ⭐️
The "IF" Statement
"ELSE"
Logical Operators
The Bouncing Ball
Boolean Variables
⭐️ LOOPS ⭐️
The While Loop
Variable Scope
The For Loop
Nested Loops
⭐️ ARRAYS ⭐️
Indexing
Iteration
⭐️ FUNCTIONS ⭐️
Defining Your Own
Modularity
Reusability
Return Types
⭐️ CLASSES AND OBJECTS ⭐️
Constructor Arguments
Arrays of Objects
Enhanced Loop
⭐️ CONFETTI PROJECT ⭐️
⭐️ CONCLUSION ⭐️

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