I’m reaching out to the community in hopes of finding research materials on custom tools for educators to teach programming for the arts. I’m specifically interested in custom tools, interactive modules, academic papers, curriculum, and reading material that is focused on helping educators teach code to university art students. Although my focus is university level, I welcome resources geared for all levels of learning. Looking for both historical and theoretical sources and case studies. I am mostly interested in open-source software toolkits for the arts, but am also interested in closed-source as well. ty

This is basically a dump of my browser bookmarks. It’s not even all of it … :blush:. I’m happy to chat more if you like. There are many books on Processing (Java, JS, and Python variants) that include practical and theoretical content – 10 PRINT – Nick Montfort, et al. Algorithms for Visual Design – Kostas Terzidis The Art of Coding – Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie Coding Art – Yu Zhang & Mathias Funk Creating Procedural Artworks with Processing – Penny de Byl Form + Code – Casey Reas, et al. Generative Design – Benedikt Groß, et al. Generative Art – Matt Pearson Getting Started with p5.js – Lauren McCarthy, et al. Getting Started with Processing – Casey Reas & Ben Fry Getting Started with Processing.py – Allison Parrish Learn Python Visually: Creative Coding with Processing.py – Tristan Bunn Learning Processing – Daniel Shiffman Libre Graphics magazine, volumes 1.1 – 2.4 The Nature of Code – Daniel Shiffman Processing 2: Creative Coding – Nikolaus Gradwohl Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook – Jan Vantomme Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers – Casey Reas & Ben Fry Processing: An Introduction to Programming – Jeffrey & Larry Nyhoff Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing – Ira Greenburg, et al. Processing for Visual Artists – Andre Glassner Programming Media Art Using Processing – Margaret Noble Sparkfun Guide to Processing – Derek Runberg Many of the books published by Friends of Ed on ActionScript/Flash cover content transferable to Processing and other creative coding environments. For developing curricula, you can include topics like DataViz, interaction design, video games, procedural generation, simulation, tiling, genetic algorithms, machine learning, and more. There is plenty of literature covering those domains. You can look at these courses for inspiration: code it! online coding courses for kids coursera creative programming for digital media & mobile apps dave’s short trig course james r eagan jeffthompson/chanceandrandomness: a course exploring the creative potential of chance and randomness jeffthompson/creativeprogramming1: an introductory course exploring the computer as a tool for creative making jeffthompson/creativeprogramming2: an intermediate course covering simulation, image processing, computer vision, and interactivity jeffthompson/creativeprogramming3: an advanced course at the intersection of art, code, and design jeffthompson/datavisualization: a course on data and design jeffthompson/physicalcomputing: a course on art, electronics, and interactivity jeffthompson/technologyandthelandscape: a course exploring how technology has shaped the landscape and how we record it joel gethin lewis - teaching, workshops and presentations kadenze (course catalog) massey coding for creative practice (197.119) monash university (creative coding) new york university creative coding nyu steinhardt, mcc, creative coding with professor jamie ‘skye’ bianco processing and arduino: spring 2014 tim rodenbröker • creative coding essentials terkelg/awesome-creative-coding: generative art, data visualization, interaction design, resources. uic: des400 – creative coding Regarding tools, libraries, and software, you might look at: (t,i,x,y) => “creative code golfing” cinder codeguppy | coding for kids, teens and creative adults desmos | beautiful, free math greenfoot | educational ide he_mesh nannou - an open-source creative-coding framework for rust openframeworks openrndr.org p5.js web editor p5.js welcome to p5.js p5live p5party praxislive playgnd shadertoy beta snap! build your own blocks turtleart thi.ng - computational design tools for clojure & clojurescript toxiclibs If you’re interested in visual/node-based environments, you can investigate – cables cables demo/intro cobble - visual creative coding in the browser! nodebox tooll.io – create beautiful interactive realtime content touch designer | derivative I’m a big fan of Python for creative coding. You can refer to Villares’ resources for teaching programming, as well as these links – codeskulptor easy draw - python module flat: generative infrastructure for python — xxyxyz generativepy tutorial landscape of programming tools for design and architectural education - blucher proceedings p5 — (python processing) 0.5.0 documentation plotdevice pyp5js - computiful editor thonny, python ide for beginners trinket - processing vpython As I said, there’s more where that came from. If there’s anything more specific that I can provide, let me know.

Thank you … great list. I’m aware of a good chunk of these, some are new to me so I’ll dive into those. My issue is that most resources are more specific to the artist/student perspective and not specific to enabling the educator to demonstrate/visualize the concepts easier and improve workflow. Can you think of any resources similar to Ken Perlin and Karl Rosenbergs ChalkTalk.

Thanks @tabreturn for the list! (and I’m humbled to be mentioned among such illustrious sources!) My master’s degree was about researching the themes used for teaching programming in a visual context (I’ve probed some introductory books, built a controlled vocabulary and tried to apply it to all examples from the Processing IDE, Python mode). Unfortunatly the dissertation is in Portuguese… A taxonomy of themes for teaching programming in a visual context I’m a bit stuck on my PhD studies but I’ve been reading this: The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research I’ll be glad to chat about this…

[image] slow_izzm: I’m specifically interested in custom tools, interactive modules, academic papers, curriculum, and reading material that is focused on helping educators teach code to university art students. Although my focus is university level, I welcome resources geared for all levels of learning. I think your question is a bit broad. In fact the whole processing project is the or an answer to your question The Website with tutorials and Examples the IDE with Examples the literature and books such as Nature of Code (see website|books) What more can you ask for?

Yes, broad on purpose. I want to be able to reference so much more, historically and theoretically, than just Processing Foundation. It’s a major resource, but for my thesis I need to broaden the scope.

Perhaps you could reach out to this group for some direction: https://www.emrg.be/

Reach out to this guy: [image] Coding playground for kids Teaching Hello Community, Processing and p5.js are great for coding education! Students from all over the world (high-school and college) are enjoying immensely the gently ease into coding that p5.js offers. As a matter of fact, the Processing API can be also used successfully to introduce even younger kids in the wonderful world of coding. For this purpose I built a coding website / playground for kids (based on p5.js library). This solves one of the biggest problem that younger kids are facing: se…

Hello @slow_izzm In case you missed it, this article that recently ran in NYTimes about the algorithmic typeface project by Erik and Martin Demaine is fascinating. May be of some relevance, or at the very least share-worthy with students? [image] Is This Some Kind of Code? You Can Solve the … Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. Also, this podcast THE WEEKLY TYPOGRAPHIC by the League of Moveable Type is an interesting intersection of type-related design and coding. I’ve been a practicing designer for years and always learn something from each new episode. Link below for full scope of their mission: [image] The League of Moveable Type The first open-source font foundry. Your source for learning how to use & make type, and level up your skills as a designer. Hopefully these are of interest! :nerd_face:

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