Data visualisation fascinates me. I’m amazed by what it can reveal, and the impacts it can have – both positive and negative. In fact, before I started the masters that I dropped out of this year, I’d originally been looking at an MA in in Design Informatics at Edinburgh – until they increased the price to… read more»
Category Archives: programming
Having set myself the task of learning After Effects expressions, I of course got distracted and started learning Unity again, and probably some other things too. But for once, I managed to pull myself back and focus on After Effects again when I ran into a problem that forced me to learn something new (by… read more»
The more work I do, the more things I discover, the more skills I want to learn. I’m constantly finding out about new ways to do the things I love, and the end result is a growing list of things to learn, and a severe case of analysis paralysis. Right now my learning list includes:… read more»
Before I even start writing I’m worried that this will turn into a sarcastic rant, so I apologise in advance. I’ve just completed the second semester of my MSc, which included one really great module on technology enhanced learning environments, and one really disappointing module on interactive 3D programming. I’ll tell you all about the… read more»
Procedural, generative, whatever you want to call it. I’ve been pretty fascinated by the concept since first seeing the work of Universal Everything back at university. I even had a workshop with Karsten Schmidt, who introduced me to Processing, and the general idea of writing code to create visuals. I love the idea that you… read more»
Programming has been on my to-learn list for a long time, amongst a million other things, so when ‘Introduction to Object Oriented Programming’ was down as one of the first modules on my Masters, I was pretty glad to be doing it. For anyone who’s never done any programming before (like myself), object oriented programming… read more»
I’ve just received my first programming assignment, which will involve building a simple ‘choose your own adventure’ game in Java. As soon as I saw the brief, I was immediately transported to the realm of Limmy’s Show character Falconhoof and his Adventure Call. “What would you like to do?” ‘Choose your own adventure’ games are absolute… read more»
Last week I had my first foray back into education as I started my MSc at Sussex. Studying part-time, I’ll be working on 2 modules between now and January; I’ll be learning to program in Java and I’ll be learning to create 3D models in 3DS Max. These are two areas of digital media that… read more»
