The Art of Creative Coding

[Richmond]

On 01/12/2013 12:46 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>   I watched the first 2  minutes of the movie, read some comments and the text below the movie. I still think that this is about programmers who are creative. What _IS_ "the art of creative coding"?! Is it a programme? A set of libraries? Looking at the movie, I get to think Creative Coding is a bunch of television screens with cool-looking animations fit for MTV. Can you explain what it is?

I think "creative coding" is rather like singing in the bath: highly 
personal, highly individual and highly idiosyncratic . . .

And, most definitely something that can be taught.

I code "creatively" and most of what I do, and how I do it, would give 
other programmers a thrombosis
(those who have seen my monster SWITCH structures will know what I 
mean): this neither belittles my way
of programming, nor suggests it is superioir to ther people's 
programming; it is just the way Richmond programs;
and "programming orthodoxy" gives me the "willies" just as religious or 
political orthodoxy does:

This is not to say there isn't a place for programming orthodoxy, but 
there should not be a place for programming bigotry.

And that film turned me off fairly quickly as it seemed to consist of 
media-bites for the short-attention generation,
that while being "very clever" weren't much else.

And, lest this be overlooked; "creative programming" is rather like the 
creative Jazz of Duke Ellington; based on a
thorough classical training.

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> On 12 jan 2013, at 03:40, Mark Wieder wrote:
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>> Five minute video for your Friday, via Boingboing-
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>> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/10/short-documentary-about-the-ar.html
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