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Building on your reply, I have found that Processing (Java) and P5 (JavaScript) have a similar easy-to-use design and the documentation is decent. (It's not opi
by NortySpock 8y ago
Building on your reply, I have found that Processing (Java) and P5 (JavaScript) have a similar easy-to-use design and the documentation is decent. (It's not opinionated on the color palette though.)
I've been using P5 to write retro video games to learn JavaScript, and it's been a lot of fun using that to learn JS. (Vanilla JS sucks, but the learning process is at least fun).
https://processing.org https://processing.org
https://p5js.org https://p5js.org
- satsuma 8y agooh man, processing. i did a weeklong video game programming "camp" back when i was in middle school and processing was the language we used. definitely easy to pick up and use.
- iamcreasy 8y agoCould you please elaborate on why Processing is easier to use over OpenGL wrapper like LWJGL? You still have to write OpenGL shaders to get the desired visual, right?
- kowdermeister 8y agoIt's just simple function calls, minimal boilerplate and simple API. You can write shaders (not mandatory since it supports 3D without them) but loading them is simple as using ShaderToy. https://processing.org/tutorials/pshader/ https://processing.org/tutorials/pshader/
- detaro 8y agoNo, you can do a lot of stuff in processing with the 2D primitives. You can use shaders if you want, but it's not something typically done as an introduction.
- satsuma 8y agowell, we were middle schoolers being introduced to programming through video games. we were making basic 2d games like asteroids and tankwar, nothing with shaders.