Creative Coding

When I was doing programming lectures I used to go on about how creative programming is. I also make the point in the introduction to my latest book (subtle plug). I’ve just spent all of today proving the point. The weather has been horrible, so we were forced to stay indoors and do stuff. So I wrote some more code.

My silly little PICO music box can now store multiple rhythm tracks which can be made to run at different speeds. It has a full setting editor using coloured pixels. I rather enjoy playing with it to make little looping sound sequences.

It’s a strange and wonderful feeling when something that you are making starts to take on a life of its own. I’m sure that artists and musicians get it, programmers get it too. Big time.