Learning Creative Coding

dolebirchwood

Am I just supposed to know what "creative coding" is? It is not defined anywhere on the page. What specifically distinguishes "creative coding" from just "coding"?

marysminefnuf

Its written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.

JoeDaDude

Did any other old timer like me get reminded of Creative Computing magazine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Computing_(magazine)

akst

I opened the book, it looks kind of like an essay. But it says this at the start > This book was created through an extended collaboration between the author, Claude (Anthropic), and ChatGPT (OpenAI). The structure, pedagogical framework, and frustrations catalog emerged from the author’s two decades of teaching creative coding. I think it would have been better to make a series of blog posts and held off on writing the book until they felt comfortable doing it without AI and understood how to express this ideas without AI. Before I saw the AI comment, I felt like giving that to someone looking to learn about this might be overwhelming tbh. Now I feel it would be incredibly harmful like telling the blind to follow the blind. A beginner would be better off just to being told to give whatever they want to do a go and use claude as needed or something if they don't understand it. I did wonder why there was no code, I figure maybe they want to keep it general and keep this more philosophical. tbh I dig the aesthetic of the book, but idk seeing that in the intro just makes it feel like it isn't worth my time.