The website for Daniel Shiffman's Nature of Code class at ITP should be an amazing resource for anyone looking to create interactive imagery and animation with code. There is a large breadth of topics covered including particle systems, cellular automata, and genetic algorithms. The class is taught in Processing version 74, so most of the code ought to transition relatively seamlessly to the recently released beta.

I think that a class similar to this could be a REALLY VALUABLE addition to the first year curriculum here at our division.

Yep. Two weeks of the 2nd semester 2nd year is hardly the time.
LOL

no comment...for now.

so frustrating!!!!

ITP server is down. 'Nature of Code' site temporarily served here:
http://www.shiffman.net/itp/classes/nature/