processing

mike and i finished our first week (of two) of the processing workshop at machine project. having been somewhat versed in actionscript (by no means an expert), i was already familiar with some of the syntax/semantics and general programming. the language is a lot like as. since i've been using as in the context of work, it's nice to be able to experiment, and some of the things i have been doing for the class ( essentially programming drawings ) has been fun, and not so much utilitarian as the usual things for work.

all of this is also great programming practice. aside from the two computer science classes in high school in which i programmed in pascal, i have never had any formal schooling/training. all the web programming i have learned on the job and on my own, dissecting someone else's code, and figuring out how things work.

our instructor, mark allen, seems to have a lot of experience teaching, especially in demoing technical concepts to non-programmers.