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What is Creative Coding? • tim rodenbröker creative coding

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The world’s largest computer museum in provincial Paderborn sends hundreds of thousands of visitors each year on a dizzying journey through almost 6,000 years of human history. It begins on the second floor with cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia, leads past Johannes Gutenberg’s letterpress printing, shows the transformation of mechanical calculators and typewriters over the centuries, and then focuses visitors’ gaze on the short time period of the last 100 years on the second floor. Near a clunky IBM computer from the 1970s, the giggles of teenagers can be heard again and again. Black-and-white photos show people in offices wearing strange smocks, sitting in front of huge machines with tiny tube screens, dully hacking characters into keyboards. At that time, computers could already be found in research facilities and large companies, but nowhere near private homes. There was still no good reason to buy a computer, because the monstrously large machines were not only unimaginably expensi

What is Creative Coding? • tim rodenbröker creative coding Please note: Captions are auto generated and may contain mistakes Since 2014 I describe what I do as “Creative Coding” and I think it all started with the insight that what I did with my small experiments was motivated by artistic expression. I enjoyed to play with the systems I created and I was always excited about the often unexpected results that came out of my experimentation. For me it as always been the process that was in the center of this term: Writing code for a computer as a form of creative expression. Th

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