IgniteNY: Visual code literacy, in 5 minutes

Part of Ignite, a series of 5-minute, rapid-fire presentations.

Here, I talk about how to become literate with code, even as a non-programmer, by working visually with the open-source tool Processing.

Image credits:
Dinner check by Jim Reynolds:
http://flickr.com/photos/revjim5000/2445394705/

LOGO-generated image graphic created by remi, logo source code created by Arbol01, via Wikimedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Remi_turtlegrafik.png

Apple II image by Florian Eckerstorfer
http://flickr.com/photos/florianeckerstorfer/1870727397/

Breakout art, as featured in Create Digital Motion:
http://createdigitalmotion.com/2007/04/17/breakout-hacked-into-art-in-processing/
See also Game Mod:
http://www.trsp.net/teaching/gamemod/

NOAA climate information from the National Weather Service:
http://www.weather.gov/climate/

Vintage cookbooks by Patrick Q:
http://flickr.com/photos/patrick_q/199986515/

All other images by the author