Jonathan Feinberg has just released on GitHub a clever Python-like wrapper for Processing, the result of an interesting encounter with a group of 8th graders.
I recently gave a talk about Processing to a group of rather bright 8th-graders, as part of a computer-programming summer camp they were attending at my office. Their curriculum up to that point had been in Python, which is an eminently sensible choice, given the pedagogical roots of the language.
The kids were really turned on by the demos–I showed them the white glove, and Golan Levin’s New Year’s cards–but they were bogged down by Processing’s C-like syntax, which really seems arcane and unnecessarily complex when you’re used to Python.
The full code and some demos are available at GitHub.
