> To get people into coding, let them build stuff right away. […] Fry talks about one of his original motives: He wanted to create a language that let newbies a

> To get people into coding, let them build stuff right away. […] Fry talks about one of his original motives: He wanted to create a language that let newbies a) start making cool-looking visual creations b)very quickly. This really is a great goal. I love processing for this reason. Also Arduino - it’s the hardware version of the same thing. Same goes for ShaderToy. And I kinda consider Python to almost be a language equivalent of this goal (even though there are lots of decidedly simpler & easier languages). But I feel like this telling of the story is leaving out the lineage and inspirations of this idea, since it long predates Processing, and there a lot of notable milestones. Logo was founded on the same concept, and I got some of the same thrill from making pictures quickly back when I was a kid. It was so much easier to get something interesting done compared to almost any other language / environment. I’d love to hear what people consider other meaningful versions of this, before and after Logo. I’m curious if environments like DrawBot and NodeBox, which started around the same time that Processing did, share direct connections, or only share inspirations.