Hi everyone! I heard of Processing through Daniel Shiffman’s videos, and while I do not use it personally, I feel the it is a great tool for teaching and creative coding. I would love to contribute to the development of Processing. The first thing that I would like to contribute is a better naming…

@jeremydouglass , @Bobby54 How is this? [K4LKIkNaXL] I have also updated my GitHub branch .

I would say that this is perfect. Great idea to use a drop-down menu and show example names behind it.

Awesome. One suggestion. The issue that you opened – that I’m assuming you will submit a PR to close – says “New sketches are a mix of numbers that need to be read VERY carefully.” It might be good to edit the issue description to something like “New sketches are named with a number date string, s…

Thanks! I still need to work on language support, should submit a PR by tomorrow.

To be honest, I only recently found out that the numbers at the end of sketch names are NOT random numbers. Personally, I find it quite difficult to parse the numbers as a date, especially as it is in an unusual format (yymmdd as opposed to the ISO yyyymmdd). But I do see your point. I have updat…

@jeremydouglass Any updates on this?

Hi @KartikSoneji – sorry, no updates. I am not a core developer on the Processing repo. I believe that ben fry is reviewing and merging almost everything there, and things happen as they can based on his limited availability. I’m hoping this gets a favorable look soon and am happy to chime in furthe…

@jeremydouglass oh, I thought that you were a core developer. I completely understand. Could you suggest something else that I could work on in the meanwhile? Thanks again for your help and support.

[image] KartikSoneji: oh, I thought that you were a core developer. Sorry for the confusion. I am a moderator on the forums and active on repo issues, but I tried to communicate the key gatekeeper is ben fry.

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KartikSoneji May 23, 2020, 11:24pm 20

I have submitted a PR!

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