Learning Creative Coding
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Learning Creative Coding
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Re: Learning Creative Coding
#2Am 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"?
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#3Its written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.
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#4Its written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.
That’s disappointing. I’ll give that a miss then.
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#5Am 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"?
Creative coding is a type of computer programming in which the goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional.
Wikipedia
Re: Learning Creative Coding
#6Its written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.
How sad. "Creative coding" was supposed to be one of the last respites we programmers had from the sloppotron.
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#7Am 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"?
Creative coding is a type of computer programming in which the goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Wikipedia
Anyone know what "expressive" means here?
Also, you could have provided a link to the wikipedia article this is from.
Re: Learning Creative Coding
#8Did any other old timer like me get reminded of Creative Computing magazine?
Re: Learning Creative Coding
#9Its written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.
That’s disappointing. I’ll give that a miss then.
if you open up the pdf it actually says written with AI...and author's 2 decades of experience with creative coding. i feel like it's a pretty fair disclaimer
Re: Learning Creative Coding
#10Its written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.
That’s disappointing. I’ll give that a miss then.
In the author's defense, I just read a chapter, and it doesn't feel like AI slop. I think they were just being brutally transparent with disclaimers. The author has "two decades of experience teaching creative coding".
Also the book is beautifully designed. Clearly a lot of effort and taste was put into it (as you'd expect from a Creative Coding book).
I'm not the target audience, but if this work was only possible because of AI, I'd say this is a win for the world.
Full disclaimer from the pdf:
> AI ASSISTANCE
> 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. AI served as writing partner, generating draft content based on detailed prompts while the author provided direction, critique, iteration, and editorial control. AI was also used to generate specific images. All teaching insights, personal anecdotes, and educational philosophy originate from the author’s experience.