Welcome to Processing!
Getting started
Download and open the ‘Processing' application. Select something from the Examples. Hit the Run button. Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary. More information on using Processing itself is can be found in the environment section of the reference. To learn the Processing language, we recommend you try a few of the built-in examples, and check out the reference. A group of diverse books have been written to help people with different goals and skill levels.
Processing is 20!
Let’s organize a distributed, worldwide party! Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Processing with the community on August 20–22 by sharing events, zines, cakes, and artwork. Who’s in? #pcd2021!
Contribute
The core Processing software is augmented by libraries and tools contributed through the community. These inventive extensions are a bright future for the project. We have a list of Contributed Libraries and Contributed Tools posted online. These contributions can't be underestimated.
To contribute to Processing development, please visit Processing on GitHub to read instructions for downloading the code, building from the source, reporting and tracking bugs, reporting and tracking bugs creating libraries and tools.
Getting Started Tutorial
Don’t know where to get started? Read this tutorial, which will guide you through the basics of Processing
Check out the Reference
Find further documentation of the Processing language
Get the software
The Processing Development Environment makes it easy to write Processing programs. It’s free and open source!
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