Processing Basics

What is Processing?

"Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community."

Where to download

https://processing.org/download/?processing

If you have troubles downloading, installing or opening the Processing environment, look around and see if anyone else has finished and if they can help.

Getting started

Start

Stop

Main window is

for your code

Code output and errors

Processing Functions

Shapes
Points
Lines
Fill

Shapes

ellipse - https://processing.org/reference/ellipse_.html
triangle - https://processing.org/reference/triangle_.html
rect - https://processing.org/reference/rect_.html
quad - https://processing.org/reference/quad_.html
arc - https://processing.org/reference/arc_.html

ellipse(56, 46, 55, 55);
triangle(30, 75, 58, 20, 86, 75);
rect(30, 20, 55, 55);
quad(38, 31, 86, 20, 69, 63, 30, 76);
arc(50, 50, 80, 80, 0, PI+QUARTER_PI, PIE);

Points and Lines

point - https://processing.org/reference/point_.html
line - https://processing.org/reference/line_.html

point(30, 20);
line(30, 20, 85, 75);

Fill

fill - https://processing.org/reference/fill_.html

fill(204, 102, 0);
rect(30, 20, 55, 55);

Can anyone guess what the parameters are that fill takes?