In this session, Cassie Tarakajian joins us to talk about all things p5.js, the Processing Foundation, and open source software. Cassie is a technologist, educator, and artist, currently working at Processing Foundation as the p5.js web editor lead and as an adjunct professor at Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU.
We asked Cassie about how the p5.js library was developed, what the Processing Foundation does to make programming accessible with p5.js, and what it means for software to be open-source. Cassie also gave us a tour around the p5.js web editor, an online code editor for p5.js projects. The web editor allows you to create, save, and share your p5.js sketches with no extra setup.
Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the work we did in this session:
Finding an open source project to contribute to
The difference between free software and open source software
If you enjoyed this lesson, you can catch up on the rest of the series on YouTube. If you’d like to watch a session live, follow the Codecademy YouTube channel.
Every Tuesday from now until April 27th, we’ll be streaming a new session at 4PM EST. You can set a reminder for the stream for March 30th here.
Finally, if you want even more Creative Coding with p5.js content, you can sign up for the interactive course this series was based on here. This course was developed by Jiwon and has many more quizzes, projects, and helpful articles that we can’t fit into our streams!