My students for the Digital Media Studio Project here at the University of Edinburgh have asked me to present a small workshop on using some aspects of the Processing.org environment. I’ve worked up something and thought I could share it online as well. I’ve setup a google code repository with the necessary files. The code simply highlights what you could find throughout the Processing.org discourse and the OpenCV example files though is more thoroughly commented and organized.

A few notes, I really dislike the Processing IDE. Maybe it’s just because I’ve used IDE’s like VS, Netbeans, Eclipse, XCode etc… and I haven’t really played with Processing enough to have a well founded basis in the functions available. I believe going through a few extra steps to setup an IDE like Eclipse makes the task of programming much easier though at the cost of a bulky editor that may not be so easy to setup at first…

Eclipse is an (Integrated Development Environment) IDE for many coding languages, one of which is Java. Some advantages:

• code completion – automatically see possible choices for all members belonging to a class definition, such as functions and their arguments.

• javadocs – javadoc is