I was chuffed to have made it to the London workshop for openFrameworks organised by my pal Ruairi Glynn et al which took place on 13-14th June. I was amazed to hear at the time that there had been hundreds of applicants for this weekend, but since attending, it isn’t surprising at all. It was a fantastic way to spend your weekend. At least if you are a bit like me.
I’m really not at all experienced in C based programming. Much of my experience so far has been with AS, Java and stuff. In fact the idea of delving into lower levels of programming have always freaked me out a bit… one peek at the syntax in the classes of a friend’s Objective C iPhone App not too long ago put me off yet again.
However intimidating it might be, essentially openFrameworks exists to tame all that. It provides an easy-to-understand er… framework that wraps the awesome capability of existing C/C++ libraries into something that really isn’t hard at all.
So thanks to Memo, Joel and Marek for providing a great intro to what will possibly become my main focus as of now. Watch this space.
Image: Elly