Teaching media literacy through code

Finding out the basics of computer programming using Processing opens up a whole new world of exploration. We're running a Youth Project at VIVO which introduces young people to Processing, it's amazing how quickly they are picking it up and how keen they are! Tonight learning to read and learning to write code. We made a dog move across a screen, bark and figured out how to make the dogs tail wag. By the end of the night I had 3 dogs moving across the screen, with tails wagging but each dog had an extra tail...

If you want to know what is possible with Processing check out this, it's pretty amazing! All you need is an idea and the patience to sit down and figure it out.