BeginningCodersBootcamp

Creative Coding Bootcamp

A three week program to introduce the foundations of coding to beginners by creating visual art and animations in openFrameworks. This 5 course session will be open to anyone who wants to learn to code.

During this course students will be coding in C++ with openFrameworks, learning concepts like variables, memory, and scope; branching, looping, boolean evaluations, and logic; functions, recursion, and events; object-oriented design; OpenGl and 3D graphics, and working with media like video, sound, and responding to keyboard and mouse inputs.

Curriculum Repository

Browse the curriculum from the most recent class

This repo contains the curriculum in detail for every session (since we started recording). This serves as both an archive and a shortcut to planning future sessions.

for maintainers

Each class is named after its start date. Include whatever level of Y-M-D specificity required. Create your folder before class begins so that all hyperlinks during class will be perserved long term.

The draft for the next class is located its own folder. It is an improved copy of the most recent session based on feedback and post-session meetings.