Getting Started with Processing: A Hands-On Introduction to Making Interactive Graphics (Make: Technology on Your Time)

Reas, Casey; Fry, Ben

ISBN 10: 1457187086 / ISBN 13: 9781457187087

Published by Make Community, LLC, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Getting Started with Processing: A Hands-On Introduction to Making Interactive Graphics (Make: Technology on Your Time)
• Publisher: Make Community, LLC
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457187086
• ISBN 13: 9781457187087
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1752802953.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 21645417
• Signed: 7/18/2025 1:42:33 AM
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Synopsis

Processing opened up the world of programming to artists, designers, educators, and beginners. This short book gently introduces the core concepts of computer programming and working with Processing. Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, Reas and Fry, Getting Started with Processing shows you how easy it is to make software and systems with interactive graphics. If you're an artist looking to develop interactive graphics programs or a programmer on your way to becoming an artist, this book will take you where you want to go. Updated with new material on graphics manipulation, data, and for the latest version of Processing.

About the Authors

Casey Reas is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA and a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory. Reas' software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With Ben Fry, he co-founded Processing in 2001. He is the co-author of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (2007) and Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (2010). His work is archived at www.reas.com.

Ben Fry has a doctorate from the MIT Media Laboratory and was the 2006-2007 Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He worked with Casey Reas to develop Processing, which won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. Ben's work has received a New Media Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, and been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Ars Electronica, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and the 2003 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.