What is Processing? Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

Program
Two day of intensely focused introduction to the Processing programming environment. Processing permette di inserire oggetti interattivi sui siti Web ed è basato su standard aperti e rispettati come Java. Dopo questo corso, sarai in grado di scrivere programmi che presentano animazioni interattive, accedono a risorse di rete e manipolano numeri, testo ed immagini.

It's not needed any particular background, but a basic computer use knowledge, for this quick presentation of this programming envirronment created for designers and creative people. This workshop is for Absolute Beginner e In the Know.

Professor Walter Aprile
Walter Aprile has graduated in information science at Milan’s State Univeristy. After specialising in linguistics and lexicography respectively at Milan’s San Raffaele Institute of Cognitive Sciences Cognitive and Amsterdam university (Holland), Walter collaborates as an editor in Everything2 and as administrator and developer of LittleItaly, the first Italian - based MOO. As well as creating Internet contents in Macintosh environment for one of the first Italian start-ups, Walter works at the development of an automatic Italian-English translation system in capacity as Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA). Later, Walter will become the Telecommunications Director at Ilce, a Mexican distance learning organisation, for which he coordinates the development of Web publications used by over six thousand Mexican schools. From 2001 to 2004 he is associate professor at Ivrea’s Interaction Design Institute, currently committing in a PhD in robotics at Pisa’s Sant’Anna Institute. Walter Aprile is an Id-lab partner and deals with its mixed technologies sector.