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Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot

By : Nikolaus Gradwohl
Book Image

Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot

By: Nikolaus Gradwohl

Overview of this book

Processing makes it convenient for developers, artists, and designers to create their own projects easily and efficiently. Processing offers you a platform for expressing your ideas and engaging audiences in new ways. This book teaches you everything you need to know to explore new frontiers in animation and interactivity with the help of Processing."Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot' will present you with nine exciting projects that will take you beyond the basics and show you how you can make your programs see, hear, and even feel! With these projects, you will also learn how to build your own hardware controllers and integrate devices such as a Kinect senor board in your Processing sketches.Processing is an exciting programming environment for programmers and visual artists alike that makes it easier to create interactive programs.Through nine complete projects, "Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot' will help you explore the exciting possibilities that this open source language provides. The topics we will cover range from creating robot - actors performing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", to generating objects for 3D printing, and you will learn how to run your processing sketches nearly anywhere from a desktop computer to a browser or a mobile device.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Hello Twitter


Task 3 of our mission is to create a Processing sketch that is able to change our current Twitter status. We will use the Java library Twitter4J from twitter4j.org, which encapsulates all the Twitter API calls into convenient Java objects to set the status. We will also use the Twitter developer website to create the necessary application keys and learn how to ask the user for permission to post a status update.

Prepare for Lift Off

To complete this and the following task of our current mission, you will need a Twitter account to post the tweets and access to the Twitter developer site. If you are already using Twitter, you are fulfilling the prerequisites for this task, as Twitter doesn't distinguish between normal and developer accounts; every Twitter user has the permission to create and register applications. If you have no Twitter account yet, go to twitter.com and register for one.

Engage Thrusters

Let's tweet a bit:

  1. Go to the Twitter developer pages at https://dev.twitter...