Learning p5.js week zero: Introduction

A few years back I stumbled onto The Coding Train by Daniel Shiffman, and ended up watching a handful of his videos on YouTube. That's where I first came across p5.js, an open-source JavaScript library built on top of Processing.

I've been developing software for a while, but I've never used JavaScript in the context of visual and interactive art. p5.js looked like the perfect excuse to try.

So this is a little learning log. I'll be posting sketches and notes about the journey here on the journal.

References and tools #

Here are the main references I'll be leaning on:

• The Coding Train website and YouTube channel.
• The p5.js documentation.
• The p5.js web editor.
• The p5 npm package.

And if you're curious about the full setup I'm using, you can check out my /uses page.

Thanks for following along on this sidequest. Let's see where it goes.