Monday, 28 March 2011

"The Bigger Picture" notes

Programming is great because you can have an idea, and with a computer, explore this idea further than you ever could without. Programming takes the complexity out of a complex design with the use of repetition and randomly generated aspects.
It helps greatly to evolve a basic design idea. A downside is that it is not easy to make things that look realistic or that do not have a pattern. It is also not good for animations that do not change or evolve.
It is easy to change the amount or size of something in programming and is best used when you need variation, interaction, generation, repetition, calculation or scalability.
You must place rules or instructions to narrow and pinpoint what you want the program to make while still being able to change and have some randomness. 
Interaction must be programmed in, the program must know what to do when the user does a certain action.
There are different programming languages for certain tasks, but they are all quite similar.
It is great to use other peoples code, but you MUST acknowledge it.

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