Daniel Shiffman (born July 29, 1973) is a computer programmer, a member of the Board of Directors of the Processing Foundation, and an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at

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. Shiffman received a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

and a master's degree from the ITP.

Early research

His early artworks ''Swarm #1'' (2002), ''Swarm #2'' (2002), and ''Swarm #3'' (2004) explored algorithms to create patterns of virtual flocking birds based on Craig Reynolds’s

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model as real-time digital brush strokes generated from live video input, producing an organic painterly effect in real time. Prior to his interests in

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and visual art, Shiffman was the producing director at P73 Productions Inc., a small New York theater company he started with some friends from Yale.

Current work

Daniel Shiffman is currently focused on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for

Processing Processing is a free graphical library and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming ...

, the open source programming environment created by

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and

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. Shiffman runs a popular YouTube channel, ''The Coding Train'', with instructional videos on how to program in Processing and

p5.js Processing is a free graphical library and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming ...

, an open-source JavaScript library with a similar API to that of Processing. He has also taught an adaptation of his ''The Nature of Code'' book through

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using p5.js.

Books

*''The Nature of Code'' *''Learning Processing''

Papers

*Daniel Shiffman. 2004. Swarm. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies (SIGGRAPH '04), Heather Elliott-Famularo (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 26. *Daniel Shiffman. 2004. Reactive. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies (SIGGRAPH '04), Heather Elliott-Famularo (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 22.

Press

*Hughes, Matthew. "Coding Rainbow is a gorgeous, free guide to creative software development." The Next Web Sept 2016. *Schwendener, Martha. "Populism, Technology and Interactivity: Review." New York Times, Lateition (East Coast) ed.: NJ.13. 2011. *Fox, Catherine. "Artistic Leap Savannah Museum Gets High-Profile Addition: Main Edition." The Atlanta Journal - Constitution: G.1. 2006. *Bayliss, Sarah. "What if Jackson Pollock were a PC?" New York Times, Lateition (East Coast) ed.: 2.41. 2003.New York Times review
/ref> *Marriott, Michel. "I Don't Know Who You are, but You're Toast." The New York Times 1998.

References

External links

*
''Hello Processing!''Online Nature of Code course
*
''The Coding Train website''''The Coding Train''
on

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