reginaflores / of_dorkshop

An intro to OpenFrameworks for the MFADT incoming class of 2017

**Creative Coding** - OpenFrameworks Dorkshop - Bootcamp 2015

Sunday, August 16 from 4pm - 7pm 	 

Description

This dorkshop is an introduction to the openFrameworks C++ toolkit! It is in many ways a helping hand for your CC Lab unit on openFrameworks. It will also give you more freedom to experiement with creative coding in your first few weeks of Marjor Studio I.

Dorkshop Outline

TIME	TOPIC
4pm - 4:30pm	OF intro, Community, Add-ons
4:30pm - 5pm	Downloading X-CODE, Installing OF, Folder Structure, Project Generator, Basic Built In Examples
5:00pm - 5:15pm	Break
5:15pm - 5:30pm	Downloading Add-Ons, OFPlugin
5:30pm - 7pm	Make a simple Particle Class and then apply Flocking

Materials and Supplies

This dorkshop is about the openFrameworks C++ toolkit and will use GitHub.com as the online platform to share code, research notes and papers. (Please read and follow the setup document BEFORE coming to class.)

C++ and oF

Because we will code in C++, the sooner you get comfortable with it the better. There is A LOT of helpful extra material; personally I like the following resources:

• ofBook

• Stanford University - CS107 - Programming Paradigms by Jerry Cain

• Effective C++ by Scott Meyers

As regular consulting material you will probably want to have the following links pre-bookmarked on your browser:

• cplusplus.com I encourage the use of Dash on MacOS

• OpenFrameworks Forum

• OpenFrameworks IRC Channel

• StackOverFlow C++, CodeBlocks & Xcode (There is an openFrameworks tag, but is better if you use the OF-forum for questions.)

Resources

There are a huge number of papers, books and examples online about algorithms and simulation. Not all of them are in C++, but hopefully you will train yourself to interpret and translate them. Here are some friendly approaches:

• Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman

• FORM+CODE by Casey Reas

• Generative Design by Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Gross, Julia Laub and Claudius Lazzeroni

• The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake ( here are the code examples from the book)

• The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer

• Golan’s class notes of Generative Art