More potatoes in the classroom

Making Christmas cards with high school students, first making potatoes potato prints on paper, and then producing these prints with code.

Session plan:

INTRO
what we are going to do
background
how i got into using code
what kinds of projects you can do

PROCESSING
what is it?
why I like it + what I’ve made with it
what you can do with it (examples)

WEB EDITOR
how it works

brief tour of web editor
– log in
– change background
– add shape
– change colour of shape

ACTIVITY 1 hour

holiday cards inspiration
potato printing design (can add more colours in processing)
pair programming – what is this?
more shapes / text
how to share

END by looking at everyone’s work