Reading Response 1

http://www.princeton.edu/%7Eferguson/adw/programming_languages.shtml

I enjoyed reading the history of programming because I always knew of those languages but never knew how or why they were developed. Unfortunately, I know nothing in any of them because they looked way too daunting when I was a kid and was watching my brother tinker with our computers. It’s hard to imagine how old some of these programming languages are and how it used to be a tedious task of 0’s and 1’s. It makes you appreciate how much simpler programming and coding has become over the past decades.

http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures/text.html

I never really thought of art and programming together as I always assumed my way of thinking was far from my computer-inclined brother. It makes a lot more sense now when I think of it in the context of software and how they work hand in hand for new art mediums. Out of the three programs mentioned, I’ve only worked with Flash MX before this class. Considering the descriptions for Processing, Flash MX and C++, I would have to agree that Flash has the least amount of programming needed to make a work of art considering that all I’ve made out of it were small animations.