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Learning Creative Coding
- matthewdipo 7mo ago[dead]
- dolebirchwood 7mo agoAm I just supposed to know what "creative coding" is? It is not defined anywhere on the page. What specifically distinguishes "creative coding" from just "coding"?
- oceansky 7mo agoCreative coding is a type of computer programming in which the goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Wikipedia
- zabzonk 7mo agoAnyone know what "expressive" means here? Also, you could have provided a link to the wikipedia article this is from.
- empressplay 7mo agoArt. Creative coding is creating art, be that visual art or music.
- Isamu 7mo agoArt is always left undefined. This is a feature, not a bug.
- sanderjd 7mo agoI kinda figured this out from context clues, but they really should introduce the term on this page!
- esafak 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding
- mfabbri77 7mo agoBack in 80/90 we used to call it "demoscene".
- user____name 7mo agoIt's a well established term.
- marysminefnuf 7mo agoIts written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.
- makerofthings 7mo agoThat’s disappointing. I’ll give that a miss then.
- rain-princess 7mo agoif you open up the pdf it actually says written with AI...and author's 2 decades of experience with creative coding. i feel like it's a pretty fair disclaimer
- rogerrogerr 7mo agoIf someone gave me an ice cream cone and said "this is 99% ice cream and 1% cow shit", that would be a fair disclaimer. I still wouldn't lick it.
- kiba 7mo agoI used AI to do a lot of stress testing and to see what patterns fall out of the setting rule I wrote. Helped a lot with grammar checking and general editing. Brainstorming too. When you write enough materials, the AI generated output started becoming less generic and actually interesting. Really cool. Still wouldn't use the generated output. The ideas, yes, but not the words. I write every single word. It's not a shortcut by any means. Just means that your work can be narratively and technically more rigorous. Using AI to generate stories for you defeat the purpose. If it didn't take you at least an hour to create something worthwhile, it's likely that you generated slop.
- slopinthebag 7mo agoGood for you. However I will be avoiding the consumption of your work on those grounds.
- JoeDaDude 7mo agoDid any other old timer like me get reminded of Creative Computing magazine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Computing_(magazine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Computing_(magazine)
- akst 7mo agoI opened the book, it looks kind of like an essay. But it says this at the start > This book was created through an extended collaboration between the author, Claude (Anthropic), and ChatGPT (OpenAI). The structure, pedagogical framework, and frustrations catalog emerged from the author’s two decades of teaching creative coding. I think it would have been better to make a series of blog posts and held off on writing the book until they felt comfortable doing it without AI and understood how to express this ideas without AI. Before I saw the AI comment, I felt like giving that to someone looking to learn about this might be overwhelming tbh. Now I feel it would be incredibly harmful like telling the blind to follow the blind. A beginner would be better off just to being told to give whatever they want to do a go and use claude as needed or something if they don't understand it. I did wonder why there was no code, I figure maybe they want to keep it general and keep this more philosophical. tbh I dig the aesthetic of the book, but idk seeing that in the intro just makes it feel like it isn't worth my time.
- SilentM68 7mo agoThank you :)
- jonjacky 7mo agoAnother book that might have some similarities, apparently from 2020: https://aesthetic-programming.net/ https://aesthetic-programming.net/ Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31726334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31726334 (2022) but only one comment -- mine!