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Processing: Installation and quick walkthrough

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Installing Processing is really straightforward. All you have to do is to navigate to the download page and click the button. If you have further questions, you’ll find all relevant informations on that page.

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Overview

If you open the Processing application for the first time, you’ll probably be surprised how simple the application UI is. It’s not much more than the code field, a play- and a pause button. If you click the play-button, the code in the code area is executed. If you hit stop, it’ll stop. That’s it.

Published by Tim on Saturday March 14, 2020

Last modified on November 27th, 2025 at 11:37

  1. Processing and p5.js
  2. Processing: Installation and quick walkthrough
  3. Three Ways to use p5.js
  4. setup() and draw()
  5. Setting the size for your sketch
  6. Background
  7. Basic Geometry
  8. Styling Shapes with Stroke and Fill
  9. rectMode() and ellipseMode()
  10. Lines, Triangles and Polygons
  11. The Reference
  12. Mouse Interaction
  13. Colors
  14. Randomness
  15. Variables
  16. Conditional Statements
  17. Switch
  18. Operators
  19. Transformations
  20. push() and pop()
  21. Comments
  22. For-Loops
  23. For-Loops (Examples)
  24. Waves
  25. Waves (Examples)
  26. Modulo
  27. Mapping
  28. Saving Images
  29. Using the Console
  30. Functions
  31. Keyboard Interaction
  32. Exercise: Geometric Typography
  33. Wrapping Up