Downloading Processing - Happy Coding

hey there happy coders this is kevin from happycoding.io here and this weekend is the 20th anniversary celebration of processing processing being a language or library that makes it easy to do like creative coding stuff um digital art animation um data visualization that kind of thing and i i really love processing and it's a big part of what got me into this whole world so i would love to participate in my own way so this video is going to be a introductory like how to download processing and get started just because that opened up a big world so um a little bit more info about the processing anniversary um processing was created 20 years ago this month and so if you check out their twitter you can see that they're doing this big celebration um this weekend this is august 20th 2021 and really this whole month but especially this weekend there's a bunch of stuff going on so you know if you're looking at this in the next couple of days check out you know what everyone else is doing there's a lot of cool stuff i know the coding train did something this morning and that's that's totally awesome um so yeah check that out happy birthday processing and i'm going to celebrate by getting into it myself and the other reason i want to do this is because i know that i don't know if this was part of the birthday celebration or just kind of coincidentally but they just launched a new website and version 4.0 of processing and i actually have not seen either one of those things yet so i'm pretty excited to check it out okay so if you're coding along with me or if you uh are trying to get into processing yourself you can just kind of do what i do so what i'm going to do first is i would go to processing.org or if i didn't remember that it was.org i could probably just google processing and yeah it's the first result here so i'm actually pretty excited because i have not seen their new website so let's check it out and oh this is cool um sorry if you've never seen this website before you're gonna be like it's just a website what are you talking about but like this is a new and improved version of their website so i can scroll around here i think this is their new cool logo that you can actually build in processing um actually let me check that out oh man that's awesome so yeah you can like code directly in here it looks like that's really cool i'm going to try to not get too sidetracked by all these shiny things though so if you're trying to get into processing you can scroll through their website you can look at some of these examples of stuff you can build i'm going to circle back to that in a second oh i hate that i just circle back whatever you can read through like these getting started guides you can read through all these other kind of resources this is what they're talking about this weekend where it's the party that if you're watching this video you are currently attending but what i really want to do is download it so i'm going to go here to download and i want 4.0 which just came out a few days ago i'm pretty excited about this and i am working on windows so i'm going to download the windows version [Music] and that's going to be a zip file and that's going to download and probably do like a virus scan or whatever so while that is doing its thing maybe i will click back around to their their homepage it's super quick also so well done whoever whoever was on this um maybe i'll get back to overview in a second but all right my my zip file has has downloaded so i'm going to open up that that'll give me a directory and i could put this anywhere really if you are downloading this yourself you can put it anywhere you want you could put it on your desktop i am going to be a little bit picky a little bit pickier than normal anyway and i'm actually going to put it somewhere pretty specific i'm going to put it in my um like application directory or whatever it's called so i'm going to go here program files yeah i'm going to put it in here actually is there other processing stuff yeah i put previous versions in here so i'm going to put it there you could put it in your desktop it does not matter it's truly you know it's truly fine put that in program files yup [Music] that is super slow i wonder if it's going to speed up in a second maybe not all right so while i'm waiting on that i'm going to go to the processing homepage again and i'm going to maybe check out some of these other things so um okay cool it actually automatically went here i think after you download processing you might be asked to donate to the processing foundation i'm not going to do that on screen here but i would highly recommend if you if you enjoy processing come back to this page and and throw them some money because everything here is open source and run by volunteers and it's it's a great community to to support so i i definitely recommend coming back here and and throwing some money at them if you if you can there are some other ways to actually do that so like smile.amazon.com actually you can support processing through that so if that's something you're into go go that direction as well but while i wait maybe i'll check out this about page and go to this overview so yeah here's more about this 20th anniversary and maybe some history so if you're into the history of of processing and how it got started i would read through here and um yeah i just really love this community and let's see what's these people so yeah these are some of the folks who have been involved in processing [Music] and it's just it's just a big group of really awesome folks who who have contributed over the years let me check on my unzipping man that's super slow oh my goodness 13 minutes um i think what i might do is just kind of fast forward through this so i'm going to use the power of video editing to to just kind of fast forward so here we go okay so that finally finished and what i now have is in my program files or you know wherever you unzipped your directory you have this processing 4.0 b1 or whatever the version is when you're watching this video so i can click into that and i could open it up directly from here but what i'm going to do to make my life just a little easier is i'm going to try something i'm going to right click and drag it down into here [Music] yes i'm going to pin that to my to my taskbar down here so now i have a shortcut that's right here that i can open up instead of opening up in this directory but either way is fine you can either double click this or create some kind of shortcut but i'm kind of showing you my my preferred setup okay so i've got this shortcut and i'm going to click on it [Music] and i'm going to let it run because i know what i'm getting myself into and this is the new and improved version 4.0 of the processing editor and you can think of writing code similar to how you write like any document so you need like a text editor or a word editor to to write a like a paper like uh like whatever you're writing you know you've probably written a paper before and code is similar you need to write your code in an editor and this processing editor is exactly that it's a code editor so okay what is this this is just some information let me see um some stuff has changed from previous versions sure um yeah okay yeah okay i don't think i want to do that actually okay so i've got my code editor and it's nice and blue and and really neat looking um i'm really tempted to like click around here and see like what has changed but just for the purposes of this video and and my goal with this video is really just to get get you up and running so that you can then branch out into cool stuff yourself so i'm going to kind of limit myself here i'm going to write maybe just a line of code and see what happens so um what i want to do i don't know let's find out 100 100 100 100 let's just see what this does [Music] and so i've written a line of code and i've hit the run button and okay i have my handy little window here i'm going to just play around for a minute so i'm going to call size maybe give it like a size of 500 500 and you can start to see that the code i'm writing is reflected in this window that pops up when i click run and i could maybe play around with these numbers a little bit so maybe 250 100 and maybe 300 here let's just see what that does and cool so i'm writing code over here and my code is changing what's what's happening over here [Music] and i think that's honestly about as far as i'm going to take this video i i'm imagining this video is like part one of a multi-part series i have some ideas for where i want to go next but that's kind of specific to to my project from here the cool part is that you can branch out and start writing your own processing code so there are a few ways to do that one is directly on this processing website there is probably a reference maybe here oh yeah right here documentation reference so if you go here you can get more information about the kinds of things you can do so these are all the different functions you can call or variables you can use and if those words don't make sense to you that's that's totally fine i'll give you some other resources to to learn more about the fundamentals but here's where you learn about what you can do in processing another thing you can do is check out the coding train so that's dan schiffman he has a really great youtube channel that's all about processing and p5 and all that stuff so i'm just going to auto play video if i click on this and if that'll be annoying but [Laughter] amazing um so if you're if you're new to coding if you're new to processing i i recommend checking out the coding train he has a lot of really awesome videos um all the way from like getting started to really advanced stuff and i think he actually posted something this morning about the birthday celebration so maybe start with that actually um yeah here this this live stream thing um so check that out and the other thing that i you know pretty much have to recommend is happycoding.io that's where i live that's that's my tutorial website so if you check out tutorials and then go to processing there's all kinds of getting started tutorials that take you all the way from the the fundamentals of of what we just did over here in the processing editor all the way to you know more advanced topics so that's another way that you can kind of get involved in the in the processing world um okay cool so that's where i'm going to end this video my goal was just download processing look at the website get started and have my sort of coding environment set up so that i can now do you know more interesting more exciting things um but hopefully this helped you if you were looking to download processing yourself and you know weren't sure where to click around and whatnot so that's where i'm gonna call it so as always i'll say thanks for watching have a great day and happy coding

Channel: Kevin Workman

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Length: 12min 55sec (775 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 20 2021