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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I don't think it's meant to be either. I believe it's meant to be a tool for education, allowing students to learn and experiment with the concepts of multimedia programming without having to use something like flash or director, which are limited by the controlling companies, costly, and facilitate concepts that aren?t necessarily portable to other environments. Processing is meant to provide a neutral environment for developing skills in multimedia programming concepts without the overhead of having to learn the in's and out's of a particular language which makes the speed of the environment a secondary consideration. Not to say that speed isn?t important as the environment still has to be fast enough to provide the means of constructing working programs, but I?d assume the developers of processing don?t view application performance in the same way that a typical developer would builds applications for the commercial end user does. Alternatively, you could force all the students to take a couple of computer science / software development classes first, but with the emergence of many new media focused degrees, this seems like an unnecessary burden to bear if the focus isn't on software / application development, and it provides the students with a greater amount of freedom to experiment, which I believe is a extremely important practice in this somewhat quirky field. Indeed, if you were looking for a professional development environment, say if you were planning to develop a computer game, this wouldn't it. Instead you'd use C++ or if you were moving on from learning concepts in processing, Java with it's recent full screen exclusive mode and hardware accelerated volatile images for 2D, or the spout of new OpenGL bindings that have popped up for 3D, would make a logical "next step". This would be much harder to do if you were coming from a background in languages like Actionscript or Lingo (Like me) as you'd have to un-learn some nasty habits about those languages before you can fully grasp Java. Loading...
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