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10 - TINK SKETCHY PROGRAMMING TOOLS The images below show two different IDE, Eclipse on the left, and Processing on the right. The software written in JAVA in the Eclipse IDE produces the same result of the few lines of code written with Processing: the simple ellipse on white background shown in the third window. It should be clearer already how easier it is in Processing to display graphics therefore allowing quicker development and more iterations. The two software differ a lot also in the interface, while Eclipse interface provides several panels and several buttons and options, Processing interface presents just few buttons: the most important of them, the play button, is the one that runs the sketch, during the development of a processing sketch it is going to be pressed several times in order to get a feedback on the result of the modification on the code. Figure 2. Comparison of Eclipse and Processing IDE
Graduation Assignment - 11 1.1 Sketching for interaction design 1.1.1 Sketching with code In my bachelor program in “Cinema and New Media Engineering”, I learned Java, an object-oriented programming language, meant for cross-platform development. It isn’t a very difficult programming language, however as most as other classical programming languages, it is quite structured. It was my first encounter with a programming language, and it required me to acquire knowledge on different levels: I had to learn lexicon, syntax, programming logic, programming paradigms, and programming tools. In my first programming course, programming graphical user interface was not covered. It wasn’t until a later and more advanced programming course that this topic was addressed. Each week’s assignment was to design a specific video game. Programming the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for these games required learning more lexicon but also new programming patterns. Displaying something on screen in Java was not that straightforward. Lots of libraries had to be imported and some difficult constructs had to be implemented. I gained an entirely new perspective the first day I started using Processing, a programming language for designers and artists to program images, animation, and interactions 3 . When I discovered that just a line of code was needed to draw an ellipse on screen, I was motivated to keep programming to explore what else I could do with it. I was inspired by that platform that made programming complex graphics quick and easy. My programming knowledge was still useful; processing is in fact based on Java. The difference between the two is that Processing hides most of the complexity required by Java. Processing’s fewer lines of code, is an improvement in efficiency: it is faster, there are fewer opportunities to make mistakes, and as a result programming flows more smoothly and is much more explorative. The absence of Java’s structured, boilerplate formatting makes Processing much more enjoyable. The way I learned how to program was mainly taught in my Bachelor as a way to solve problems. The practice of coding started always with understanding and deconstructing the given assignment, the deconstructing was done on paper, where the structure of the program was sketched. Once the program was clear on paper and in mind it was translated in code. The sketch on paper has to be correct. In that depends the effective translation of the project in to code. The process of coding described doesn’t allow for any creative exploration: from a good programmer is in fact required to gain complete awareness about the software he will have to write before start coding: a
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