Hi @SomeOne,
Great ideas. I’m familiar with some explicit “recipe book” / “cookbook” resources – for example, The Twine Cookbook, or for Inform Recipe Book.
Are these the kind of things that you have in mind?
I like initiatives like this – a lot! I would want to think more about how specifically this would be different from the way that, for example, the processing.org Examples page is already a kind of recipe book, or some of the books are.
https://processing.org/examples/
https://processing.org/books/
For everything all gathered in one place, you also might be interested in contributing to Rosetta Examples, which is published to PDE Contributions Manager: Examples.
It is built on the structure of Rosetta Code, which currently has 1000+ discrete “tasks”.
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks
Now, Rosetta isn’t a native survey of common patterns in processing – most tasks are defined in terms of general computing, not organized around (primarily visual) creative computing. But the example set could grow in that direction, including by defining new tasks that are common for Processing users.
So, I guess what I’m wondering is – what do you have in mind, specifically? Share more details – and maybe throw in some concrete examples for potential recipe titles. For example, right now Rosetta has a thread going for “reverse a string”: Rosetta Challenge! -- Reverse a String