website VS p5.js-web-editor

I think NY Times started long back and this style was kinda "cool" that goes well with the narrative. Then, there is https://pudding.cool that does this pretty well. Now, many just copy and tries without a meaningful treatment and is just there - kinda not working-out in most cases.

Tip: Try reading with Reader Mode.

Also check out https://pudding.cool if you’re unfamiliar and enjoy extremely high effort visualizations alongside editorial and educational text content.

Hello all, I am a JS beginner and I am passionate for creating data-driven stories on a website, like Pudding. I have watched some YT videos and learned that Python is a basic skill for dealing with data. However, I am confused about what Python does in such website? I know JS and it libraries like D3.js are used for front-end development and interactive data display, then what's the role of Python? For the website backend (such as Django)? Or is used for data cleaning and analysis? Or others? Or python is not actually required for making a data-driven story website?

https://pudding.cool/ ?

The main reason why I've got interested in frontend is that (1) it seems to be a field that can be much more diverse and collaborative across different fields (ex: working with designers) and (2) it directly interacts with users. Interactive journalism, data visualization, data storytelling (as in The New York Times or The Pudding) are my main interests currently, so it is more accurate to say I got interested in frontend with focus on those specific fields.

pudding.cool, statistical analysis of things like rap lyrics

> the only way to make a computer image perfectly deterministically is to set RGB to each single pixel manually.

You don’t need to do it manually. A quick and dirty example is to have each pixel’s colour depend on its position on the canvas. Instant gradient, perfectly deterministic, yet you can still be surprised by the colours.

P5.js example (run interactively at https://editor.p5js.org):

  function setup() {

not sure it counts as "HyperCard" but for environments there's p5js.org (https://editor.p5js.org/)

> I wish there were an offline environment like that built into firefox. You can bring up a javascript console, but it's not really a friendly development environment. And something like visual studio code is capable but large and complicated.

That seems like a day project in electron. At least to MVP. Use CodeMirror or Monaco. As long as you pass the right options you can run the user's code in an iframe in a separate process. That way you can kill it even if it has an infinite loop.

p5.js already has a web editor for you where you can make your first sketch. You can click here to create your first sketch.

Another option is to use the p5.js library. They also have a nice online editor, at https://editor.p5js.org/, which makes it easy for students to get up and running quickly.

Playing is the way to go! Some stuff can be a bit hard to wrap your head around for the first time, but theres a lot of resources and good people on the generative scene to help. If you havent saw it, you can use the online editor https://editor.p5js.org/ so you dont need to worry about how the file structure of a p5 project works (its easy!) And this will feel a bit dumb for some people but the moment i saw the reference page https://p5js.org/es/reference/ i felt a bit of relief as i thought programmers just memorized all those methods and functions.

I'm not very good at JS or processing, but you can see how this one worked out by pasting it into https://editor.p5js.org/ or a similar website.

You could do something like this in p5js pretty easily. p5js is a beginner friendly JavaScript library for drawing to an HTML canvas.

I believe p5.js (used at https://editor.p5js.org/) is quite close to Scratch in spirit. Of course I think turning straight to javascript (the library really streamlines it) might be too difficult without instruction, so following some kind of tutorials or lessons would be necessary.

It's incredibly fun, and I've been making procedural... things for a while with it. Many artists use it (and of course every web tool is available... you can even later port the code to just straight canvas for the performance, although that's rarely necessary I guess).

See my little roguelike room generator: https://editor.p5js.org/gustavo.nramires/sketches/eyyxg7vl2

And a flower: https://editor.p5js.org/gustavo.nramires/sketches/hwhVUQu_X