Programming Visual Media

Hello everyone!

* I am in Bozeman, Montana.

* I'm taking this course mostly on my own, but I have a bunch of interested folks to discuss it with. My husband, Jim, is a quantitative analyst and he's interested in using Processing to visualize his data sets. My working group here at Montana State University also has some interest in using Processing to visualize solar data sets.

* I've done a lot of programming with Matlab, but I want to learn Processing. I like the examples of interactive visualization I've seen done with it and I like that it is open source. I'm considering applying for a grant here at MSU to create a series of programming tutorials using Processing.

Greetings to all of you!

*I'm from a little place called Rio Meão in Portugal.

*Unfortunately i did not get someone to get along with me in the course. My hope is to know some of you to learn and share knowledge.

*I know a little bit of programming in javascript, php, and others, and i hope that in the end of this course i'll be better prepared and secure to apply my knowledges in wichever project i'll be in. Cause i have some formation in the area of Multimedia and all that i can learn and apply in the that is very welcome. And the fact that Processing. is open-source. Great!!

Hey,

Prague calling, my name is Radim and I am from Czech Republic!

I've come accross Ben Fry's Visualizing data somehow when I was at Erasmus in Liverpool. I read the book, got impressed with the creative notion of working with data and started reading blogs and stuff about data visualization. That's actually how I got here following one of Ben Fry's tweet.

I love visual art, programming and working with data. My goal with this course is explore some new visualization techniques and get more expierience with processing language and programming in general. In the past I played mostly with PHP, Java and databases. Mostly during school projects or at home doing some online tutorials.

Hey, I'm Marcos, from Córdoba, Argentina.

I don't have a partner for this course, I've some friends interested, but they can't read English. I'm sure I'll find someone here though :)

I come here as a web developer, with and advanced knowledge of PHP, Python, JavaScript and the like. Some Java and C# experience too.

I'm interested in data visualization techniques and Processing seems to be the way to go that field.

Regards!

Hi, all!

I'm a homeschooling dad in Madison, Wisconsin, taking this course with my sons so we can learn something cool together & see where it leads.

I've played around a bit under the hood of WordPress, but have not done any real programming. I'm here to learn more about how learning works outside the standard schoolhouse box. (I taught English & math in the Chicago Public Schools for a number of years, and am interested in the possibilities of DIY education.) And to have fun with my kids & all of you. :-)

Hello:

I'm a Database Administer for a school in Minneapolis, MN. Most of my programming experience stems out of having to generate reports with SQL data and Python. I've also done a few dynamic web sites using Django.

Matt Nupen sugested this class to me.

I'm taking this course to learn more about visualizing data. I've also been struggling with the javascript aspects of developing for CouchDB so the higher I can get my JS comfort-level the better.

Hi!

-I'm from Santa Monica,CA.

-I'll be taking this course with no one, since all the people around me are not interested in coding.

- I'm still a student attending Community College and in the future I hope to learn interactive media and data visualization. I have used Processing before, but never used it regularly. I signed up this class from Ben Fry's tweet.

Hi Everyone! I'm K. from Colorado and I 'm an instructional designer for a community college there. I'll be working/collaborating with Chris and Rurik. Let the games begin!

Hello everyone!

*I'm in Madison Wisconsin.

*I'm taking this class with my brother Alex and my dad.

*I've always been interested in programing and have done a small amount of it but I want to learn more.

I'm at Concordia University in Montreal.

I have been working with computational media for five years or so now – I even took a Processing course with JD at MIT as a high school student and dropped a Processing course at university – but I've somehow never gotten comfortable enough with the JAVA thing and vector graphics to be able to use them for quick fun & profit. Processing strikes me as a wonderful environment for quickly sketching up a 2D visual design for trivial purposes such as a small design contract, promotional material, business cards, etc. I'm interested in it over something established like Illustrator because it opens the possibility of interaction. I am personally wary of the term interaction and try not to use it in my own work (preferring the term "responsiveness"), but I think that subtle interaction in online marketing material, for instance ripples that expand out from the movement of the mouse, can go a long way. Moreover, it's way more fun to do this than to do static design in my opinion.

2D visual design is not my passion – quite the opposite, I dislike it. However, I find myself needing to do it fairly regularly. It's simply essential to have a brand image for yourself, when you need money, 2D design contracts are easy to come by, and I found recently, when working for a research lab or media company, it's very useful to be able to help out with in-house design stuff. Processing seems like a great tool for this, especially now that we have Processing.js.

My own work concerns responsive environments, multi-modal, multi-dimensional interfaces, and resilient communities.

Hey all!
I too am in NYC (meetup?)

I teach at Parsons, a design school here in NYC, and have a background in game design and some programming. Although I must say, my programming's pretty rusty. This is part pf the reason I am excited about this course. I am also really interested in the P2PU system, processing, and meeting all of you!

-Colleen
-Colleen

Hello Everyone!
I'm an artist currently in Ottawa, ON. I'm not taking the course with anyone and I've dabbled in using Processing and HTML5 for interactive projects and games before, but would like a more solid education and dedicated time to learning Processing.js so that I can build more art-games for the web and mobile platforms.
Emily

* Madison WI

* My dad and my brother.

* I've never coded before and I've wanted to work on music for a game of some sort so I thought I should know a little bit of programing before I did that.

Hi Everyone~ I'm Damiana, and I'm attending grad school in Madison, WI. I am taking this class with my friend, Sarah, who recommended this course to me because I am becoming increasingly interested in media, especially in graphic design. In particular, I'm looking for ways to both analyze visual data and to produce representations of what I find out. I am a newbie at coding (the last time I tried to code was a basic Comp Sci course many years ago), but I am interested in learning more about what Processing can do.

Hi all,

I'm J.D. Zamfirescu, currently in Oakland, California. I'm working with Ari to help organize this course.

I've been teaching short courses on programming for several years, and when Ari approached me about teaching in this form, it sounded really interesting! I love processing as a visual art medium, the ability to get started quickly is great.

I am very interested in how the p2pu model will work out, and I love that there will be am online record of the course even after these weeks have passed.

Greetings, all...
I work as a part librarian/ part systems admin for a college art department in Detroit.

I came across Processing while setting up a lab in Interdisciplinary Electronic Arts, and am interested in using it to work with various data sets.

I must admit to being equally interested in the instructional platform and the open education movement...

Hi!

I graduated in visual and multimedia communication at the IUAV University of Venice and now I'm a freelance graphic designer, living again in Santeramo in Colle, the small town in south Italy where I was born.

I have some basic Processing knowledge coming form my studies and my experiments with shapes modified by sounds that I sometimes use for vj performances.

I'm interested in how digital elements can be modified by physical events, so I think that a "Programming Visual Media" course could be a good way to start to make a little bit of order in my rough and confused programming skills.

Moreover the idea of a peer to peer university it wonderful, so I'm really proud to be part of this course =)