website-archive VS p5.js-web-editor

The Coding Train is Shiffman's site that includes his YouTube tutorials and specific challenges.

Best youtube series here: https://thecodingtrain.com/

Git hub page on the specific subject of the person in the video I mentioned: https://github.com/CodingTrain/website/tree/main/CodingChallenges/CC_010_Maze_DFS/P5

https://thecodingtrain.com videos - Explains many concepts used for drawing with code.

Check out https://thecodingtrain.com

If I recall correctly, I tried to get into generative art 3 times. The first two times failed because I couldn't figure out where to start. The third time, in which I went from total noob to whatever I am now, I succeeded because I figured out where to start: by following Daniel Shiffman/Coding Train's 'Nature of Code', in its various forms: the online class at Kadenze, the book The Nature of Code, which you can buy or read for free, and the tutorials on YT: The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems, an 83-video playlist using Processing, and The Nature of Code 2, 43 videos covering the same topics using p5.js. (I found them both useful, nowadays using whatever language is best suited for each specific project.) Daniel has been posting new tutorials, Coding Challenges, and livestreams on YT at least once a week for the past 6 years... many of the things I wanted to learn after the Nature of Code were already covered in his other videos. Daniel's Coding Train site also hosts his videos, often with additional useful materials. All of his resources have links to source code.

Then I found that many of the other things I wanted to learn had already been covered in Daniel/Coding Train's other videos, Coding Challenges, and livestreams... he's published a new video at least once a week for 6 years now, an invaluable resource. The Coding Train site has additional resources, like links to multiple sketches that represent the state of the code at different times in the video.

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

Hi, i'm on editor.p5js.org

If you use p5js, you can use the web based editor which can be set to refresh whenever the code changes. It’s a bit dangerous if using loops since it can hang sometimes—it happened to me last week and I lost an hour of work because I was so in the zone that I didn’t think to save my sketch—but it’s good to see the results live.

Thanks! I started my employees life 20 years ago as a c++ and java programmer, I think it’s like cycling, so I just had to learn about the framework. The URL I used was https://www.p5js.gym-wst.de and of course the editor https://editor.p5js.org has tons of examples.