Creative programming with open source softwares

Programming is a creative act? I believe so and in this presentation I will show some examples of creative code using open source softwares.

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1. Creative programming
   with open source softwares
   by Enrico “Catodo” Zimuel
   www.catodo.net
   Linux User Group Pescara – New Folder
   8th March – Club Maze - Pescara (Italy)
   

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2. Programming is
   a creative act?
   

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3. Programming
   “Computer programming (often shortened to
   programming) is the comprehensive process
   that leads from an original formulation of
   a computing problem to executable programs.”
   Source: Wikipedia
   

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4. “Creative activity could be described as
   a type of learning process
   where teacher and pupil
   are located in the same individual.”
   Arthur Koestler
   About creativity
   "An essential aspect of creativity
   is not being afraid to fail"
   Edwind Land
   

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5. Link the 9 points
   with 4 continuous lines
   

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6. Thinking out of the box
   

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7. Computer and creativity?!
   

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8. Yuri Vishnevsky
   Silk - http://weavesilk.com/
   

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9. Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer
   unnamed soundsculpture,
   Trailer for ImPulzTanz Festival, 2012 - http://vimeo.com/44812164
   

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10. Jaromil
    ASCII Shell Forkbomb, 2002
    http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/forkbomb_art.html
    

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11. Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost
    Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas
    Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter
    10 PRINT book on a C64 program of a single line, 2012
    http://10print.org/
    

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12. Idea (draft)
    Write some code
    Test
    Creative coding process
    

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13. Creativity as an
    emerging experience
    

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14. Bottom-up approach
    

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15. Programming is for everyone!
    www.codeclub.org.uk
    

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17. Open source
    and creative programming
    

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18. Pure Data
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    Pure Data (Pd) is a visual
    programming language developed
    by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for
    creating interactive computer
    music and multimedia works
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    http://puredata.info/
    

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19. ●
    Cinder is a peer-reviewed, free,
    open source C++ library for
    creative coding
    ●
    http://libcinder.org
    CINDER
    

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20. ●
    openFrameworks is an open
    source C++ toolkit for creative
    coding.
    ●
    http://openframeworks.cc
    openFrameworks
    

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21. polycode
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    Polycode is completely free and
    open source (MIT license), with all
    development happening publicly
    on Github. Its core is written in C+
    + and currently runs on Mac,
    Windows and Linux with iOS and
    Android support planned in the
    future
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    http://polycode.org
    

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22. vvvv
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    vvvv is a hybrid graphical/textual
    programming environment for easy
    prototyping and development. It is
    designed to facilitate the handling
    of large media environments with
    physical interfaces, real-time
    motion graphics, audio and video
    that can interact with many users
    simultaneously
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    http://vvvv.org/
    

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23. Scratch
    ●
    Scratch is an educational
    programming language
    ●
    Open Source, on-line (from ver. 2)
    ●
    Create stories, games, and
    animations, share with others
    around the world
    ●
    http://scratch.mit.edu/
    

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24. Processing
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    Processing is an electronic
    sketchbook for developing ideas
    ●
    A computer language for beginners
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    Available for GNU/Linux,
    Mac OS X, and Windows
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    Developed in 2001 by Casey
    Reas and Benjamin Fry from MIT
    Media Lab
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    www.processing.org
    

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25. Device for creative stuff
    ●
    Kinect
    ●
    Arduino
    ●
    TouchOSC
    ●
    Monome
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    Leap Motion
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    Raspberry
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    etc
    

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26. Some references
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    Hello World (video), http://vimeo.com/28499650
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    The Art of Creative Coding (video),
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBV14-3LT-g
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    Stop drawing dead fish (video),
    http://vimeo.com/64895205
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    The Nature of Code (book), http://natureofcode.com/
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    10print.org (book), http://10print.org/
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    Processing, http://www.processing.org/
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    Fun programming, http://funprogramming.org/
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    Code Club, http://www.codeclub.org.uk
    

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27. Thanks!
    Contacts:
    www.catodo.net
    iamcatodo@gmail.com
    @iamcatodo
    

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